zhòu

wrinkles

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
皮 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

skin

芻 sound component

  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Definitions

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zhòu

wrinkles, creases, folds; to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease

Most common words with 皺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to wrinkle

皱纹

wrinkle

皱眉

to frown

褶皱

fold

皱眉头

to scowl

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤro-s

tsrjuwH

zhòu

wrinkles


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.2218% of movies

2459th most common character in movies

1954th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+76BA


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