kòu

button

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

口 sound component

  Sound component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

釦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
釦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬬪 () 

kòu

button; buckle, clasp; engrave

Most common words with 釦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to fasten

折扣

discount

扣除

to deduct

扣押

to detain

纽扣

button

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.2215% of movies

1524th most common character in movies

1625th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+91E6

Shuowen

“釦,金飾器口。从金,从口,口亦聲。”


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