diào
to hang
Original meaning:
silk streamers used for arrows
Variant of 弔. Depicts a person carrying silk streamers used for wrapping around arrows with. Based on the original meaning "silk streamers used for arrows", now written as 繳. The meaning later shifted to "to hang" and "to hang a person".
Components
Definitions
Most common words with 吊
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to lament | ||
to revoke | ||
to hang oneself | ||
death by hanging | ||
suspenders |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 13.1667% of movies
1804th most common character in movies
2050th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+540A |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.639-640
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.838-839
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