zhuó
to connect, to join together
Depicts a person with their hands and feet tied up, conveying the meaning "to join together". Original form of 綴. Not related to 又 (hand), despite the visual similarity.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*trot-s | trjwejH | zhuó | stitch (n.?) |
*trot | trjwet | zhuó | stitch |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+53D5 |
Shuowen | “叕,綴聯也。象形。” |
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