special pattern of embroidery

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
黹 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

embroidery

犮 sound component

  Sound component

quǎn

  

pull up

Evolution

黻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

special pattern of embroidery; (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6435th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+9EFB

Shuowen

“黻,黑與青相次文。从黹,犮聲。”


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