Chinese Character Wiki
叕

zhuó

to connect, to join together

Depicts a person with their hands and feet tied up, conveying the meaning "to join together". Original form of 綴. Not related to 又 (hand), despite the visual similarity.

Components
大 iconic component

大  Iconic component

dà, dài

  

big

Depicts a person.

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts tied up hands and feet.

Evolution

叕 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
叕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
叕 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
叕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

叕  

zhuó

to connect; to join together; to lack; narrow and shallow

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

裰

Sound component in 8 characters (3 verified)

綴 缀 掇 啜 輟 辍 惙 敪

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

綴 缀

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*trot-s

trjwejH

zhuó

stitch (n.?)

*trot

trjwet

zhuó

stitch


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+53D5

Shuowen

“叕，綴聯也。象形。”


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