巨 (jù) is a Chinese character meaning “huge”. It is written from ㇐ (horizontal stroke) and ㇕ (horizontal-turning stroke) and ㇐ (horizontal stroke) and ㇗ (vertical-turning stroke), and takes 4 strokes.
Build the character for “huge; giant”
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Structure
㇐ + ㇕ + ㇐ + ㇗
Overlapping structure
- ㇐ horizontal stroke unknown
- ㇕ horizontal-turning stroke unknown
- ㇐ horizontal stroke unknown
- ㇗ vertical-turning stroke unknown
Structure from: Unicode U+5DE8; modern glyph stroke decomposition checked against hanzi-writer-data stroke data
Memory aid
One long vertical-turn (㇗) wraps the left side and the floor like a giant carpenter's frame; a horizontal (㇐) caps the top, and a horizontal-turn (㇕) plus one more horizontal (㇐) sit inside it. A frame that big is huge.
This is a memory aid, not the historical origin.
Stroke order
4 strokes
In real words
- 巨大jù dàhuge; enormous巨 = jù
- 巨人jù réngiant巨 = jù
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All readings
huge; giant
huge; enormous; giant; great in size or scale
很大；非常大。 — studyhanzi 编写
Words with this reading
- 巨大jù dàhuge; enormous巨 = jù
- 巨人jù réngiant巨 = jù
Stroke data: hanzi-writer-data (Arphic Public License) · licenses & attributions
Questions people ask about this character
What does 巨 mean?
巨 (jù) means huge; enormous; giant; great in size or scale.
How do you pronounce 巨?
It is pronounced jù.
What parts is 巨 made of?
㇐ (horizontal stroke) and ㇕ (horizontal-turning stroke) and ㇐ (horizontal stroke) and ㇗ (vertical-turning stroke). The recorded source is: Unicode U+5DE8; modern glyph stroke decomposition checked against hanzi-writer-data stroke data. Components are the building blocks of the shape; the radical used for dictionary lookup is a separate thing.
How many strokes does 巨 have?
4. You can watch the stroke order on this page, or trace it yourself.
What is the radical of 巨?
工. The radical is how the character is filed in a dictionary — it is not the whole story of how the character is built.
What words use 巨?
Common ones are 巨大 and 巨人. The reading of 巨 is not the same in every word, so each word on this page shows which reading applies.