顾

gù

to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to

surname Gu

phonetic (厄) + head (页) = look after, attend to

页 depicts a head, grounding the idea of turning one's head to look after someone or something. 厄 lends the sound gù and does not carry the meaning.

厄+页→顾
厄DistressPhonetic
页HeadSemantic

你去忙吧,不用顾我。

nǐ qù máng ba, bù yòng gù wǒ.

Go ahead and stay busy, no need to look after me.

做决定时要顾到大家的感受。

zuò juédìng shí yào gù dào dàjiā de gǎnshòu.

When making decisions, you should take everyone's feelings into consideration.

Words with 顾

乏人照顾

fá rén zhào gù

(of a person) left unattended

顾此失彼

gù cǐ shī bǐ

lit. to attend to one thing and lose sight of another (idiom)

瞻前顾后

zhān qián gù hòu

lit. to look forward and back (idiom)

顾炎武

gù yán wǔ

Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录

顾不及

gù bu jí

(of sb who is preoccupied with doing sth) to pay no heed to (a less pressing consideration)

顾不得

gù bu de

unable to change sth

顾主

gù zhǔ

(old) customer

顾全

gù quán

to give careful consideration to

顾全大局

gù quán dà jú

to take the big picture into consideration (idiom)

顾及

gù jí

to take into consideration

顾名思义

gù míng sī yì

as the name implies

顾客

gù kè

customer; client

More characters with 厄

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