诸
諸Zhu1
#1,019 most
frequent character
surname Zhu
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
诸 has 讠 speech for meaning and 者 zhě for sound. It first meant to distinguish or tell apart. The meaning 'all, every' was borrowed for its sound, not from the idea of speech.
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