Chinese Character Wiki

繩

shéng

rope

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

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

黽 sound component

黽  Sound component

miǎn, měng, mǐn

  

toad

Evolution

繩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绳 (繩) 

shéng

rope, string, cord; measure, restrain; rope; CL:根[gēn]

Most common words with 繩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绳子

cord

绳

rope

绳索

rope

绳之以法

to bring to justice

冲绳

Okinawa, Japan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-m.rəŋ

zying

shéng

string, cord


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.9585% of movies

1623rd most common character in movies

1983rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

绳

Unicode

U+7E69

Shuowen

“繩，索也。从糸，蠅省聲。”


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