Chinese Character Wiki

綽

chuò, chāo

graceful

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 卓 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

卓 sound component

卓  Sound component

zhuō, zhuó

  

profound

Evolution

綽 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
綽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
綽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
綽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绰 (綽) 

chuò

graceful, delicate; spacious; generous; ample; wide; well-off; to grip

绰 (綽) 

chāo

to grab; to snatch up; variant of 焯[chāo]

Most common words with 綽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绰号

nickname

绰绰有余

enough and to spare (idiom)

绰

ample

阔绰

ostentatious

风姿绰约

graceful

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰawk

tsyhak

chuò

indulgent, gentle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4919% of movies

2613th most common character in movies

2930th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

绰

Unicode

U+7DBD

Shuowen

“繛，也。从素，卓聲。綽，繛或省。”


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