cuò
push down
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 坐 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
cuò
push down; chop down; grind; obstructed; to fail; to oppress; to repress; to lower the tone; to bend back; to dampen
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.3019% of movies
2526th most common character in movies
2426th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+632B |
Shuowen | “挫，摧也。从手，聲。” |
Sources
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