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素

sù

raw silk, white, plain

Depicts raw silk (糸) hanging from a rack.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a rack.

糸 iconic component

糸  Iconic component

mì

  

silk

Depicts raw silk.

Evolution

素 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
素 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
素 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

素  

sù

white (silk); plain; vegetarian; formerly; normally; raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever

Most common words with 素
Freq.
Word
Meaning

因素

element

素

white

素质

inner quality

元素

element

维生素

vitamin

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

愫

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

愫 嗉

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤak-s

suH

sù

white silk


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.7293% of movies

1139th most common character in movies

661st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7D20

Shuowen

“素，白緻繒也。从糸、，取其澤也。”


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