chóu
silk cloth
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 周 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 綢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
silk | ||
(light) silk | ||
to prepare for a rainy day | ||
the Silk Road | ||
satin |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]riw | drjuw | chóu | bind round |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3546% of movies
2911th most common character in movies
2635th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DA2 |
Shuowen | “綢，繆也。从糸，周聲。” |
Sources
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