xiū
decorate, embellish, repair
Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 攸 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 修
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to decorate | ||
to amend | ||
to decorate | ||
maintenance (of equipment) | ||
to restore |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-liw | sjuw | xiū | adorn |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 46.2118% of movies
764th most common character in movies
740th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+4FEE |
Shuowen | “修,飾也。从彡,攸聲。” |
Sources
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