👥 🎓 📚 📦

鬮

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

阄

🇨🇳

drawn

HSK 10

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jiū

キュウ

くじ

구, 규

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

阄

Regular

Modern

Chinese

阄 / 鬮 [jiū]

lots (to be drawn); lot (in a game of chance)

Japanese

籤、鬮 (rare) 、籖 (rare) くじ、クジ同音

noun usually kana lottery; lot; raffle; draw

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

くじで誰が勝ちか決めよう。

Let's decide the winner by lot.

CHINESE WORDS (1)

抓阄 [zhuājiū] #42,720

JAPANESE WORDS (2)

⭐ 籤 [くじ] #61,749

神籤 [みくじ] #140,692

fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)