This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

A ditch 洰 made of wood 木; 洰 also provides the pronunciation

  • 渠 ditch, gutter; canal, channel qú
    • 洰 ditch, gutter; canal, channel jù
      • 氵 water shuǐ
      • 巨 large, huge, gigantic; chief jù
    • 木 tree; wood, lumber; wooden mù
渠 qú ditch, gutter canal, channel 磲蕖

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