Chinese Character Wiki

鞣

róu

tan

To soften 柔 leather 革; 柔 also provides the pronunciation

Components
革 meaning component

革  Meaning component

gé

  

leather

柔 sound,meaning component

柔  Sound Meaning component

róu

  

soft, flexible

Evolution

鞣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鞣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鞣  

róu

tan, soften; suede; chamois; tannin; to tan

Most common words with 鞣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鞣

suede

鞣酸

tannin

鞣质

tannin

鞣制

tanning

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5085th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+97A3

Shuowen

“鞣，耎也。从革，从柔，柔亦聲。”


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