Chinese Character Wiki

梳

shū

comb

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

wood

㐬 sound component

㐬  Sound component

liú

  

birth

Evolution

梳 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
梳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

梳  

shū

comb; brush; a comb; to comb

Most common words with 梳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

梳

a comb

梳理

to comb

梳子

comb

梳头

to comb one's hair

梳洗

to freshen up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sra

srjo

shū

comb


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9495% of movies

2450th most common character in movies

2717th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+68B3

Shuowen

“梳，理髮也。从木，疏省聲。”


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