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惴

zhuì

afraid

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

耑 sound component

耑  Sound component

duān, zhuān

  

tip, start, extremity

Evolution

惴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
惴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
惴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

惴  

zhuì

afraid, apprehensive, nervous; anxious; worried

Most common words with 惴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惴惴不安

to be on tenterhooks (idiom)

惴

anxious

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3725th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+60F4

Shuowen

“惴，憂懼也。从心，耑聲。《詩》曰：‘惴惴其慄。’”


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