reddish color

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

是 sound component

  Sound component

shì

  

is

Evolution

缇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
缇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
缇 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
缇 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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reddish color, red, brown; orange-red silk; orange-red colored

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.2723% of movies

3297th most common character in movies

5794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+7F07


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