sù
pay respects
Original meaning:
to tremble with fear
Simplified form of 肅. Depicts a hand holding a bamboo stick (聿) walking on the edge of an abyss (𣶒). Based on the original meaning "to tremble with fear". The meaning later shifted to "solemn" and "pay respects".
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 肃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
solemn | ||
silence | ||
Gansu province, abbr. 甘[Gān], short name 隴|陇[Lǒng], capital Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lánzhōu] | ||
Gansu Province, abbr. 甘[Gān], short name 隴|陇[Lǒng], capital Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lánzhōu] | ||
solemn |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 10.5398% of movies
1976th most common character in movies
1518th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8083 |
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