shuài
handsome
Simplified form of 帥. Depicts two hands pulling a long, vertical object. The original meaning is variously explained as pulling with a rope, or a belt-like garment. The meaning later shifted to "lead", "commander", and "handsome".
Components
刂 Simplified component
dāo
knife
Shorthand for the left side of the traditional character 帥. Depicts something being pulled by two hands.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 帅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
handsome | ||
handsome guy | ||
handsome | ||
coach | ||
marshal (in the army) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 25.7088% of movies
1292nd most common character in movies
1888th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5E05 |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.620-621
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