刷 - Dong Chinese dictionary

shuā, shuà

brush

Depicts a person squatting (尸) and holding a utensil (刂 ) attached to a cloth (巾) to scrub or clean something.

Components

尸 Iconic component

shī

sitting person

Depicts a person squatting.

巾 Iconic component

jīn

cloth

刂 Iconic component

dāo

knife

Used here to depict a utensil held in the hand. The variant character 㕞 used the 又 (hand) component instad.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

刷

shuā

brush; clean with brush, scrub; to brush; to paint; to daub; to paste up; to skip class (of students); to fire from a job

刷

shuà

to select

Most common words with 刷

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	刷	to brush
	印刷	to print
	刷牙	to brush one's teeth
	牙刷	toothbrush
	刷新	to renovate

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

唰涮

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[s]r[o]t (dialect: retains MC srj-)	srjwet	shuā	brush (v.)
*[s]r[o]t	srwaet	shuā	brush (v.)

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 13.7754% of movies

1749th most common character in movies

1824th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Unicode	U+5237
Shuowen	“刷，刮也。从刀，省聲。《禮》：‘布刷巾。’”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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