xiù
embroider
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 肅 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 繡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to embroider | ||
to embroider | ||
to embroider | ||
beautiful | ||
bright future |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]iw(k)-s | sjuwH | xiù | embroider |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3936% of movies
2948th most common character in movies
2434th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E61 |
Shuowen | “繡，五采備也。从系，肅聲。” |
Sources
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