róu
soft, flexible
Phonosemantic compound. 矛 represents the sound and 木 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nu | nyuw | róu | soft |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.3223% of movies
1675th most common character in movies
1573rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67D4 |
Shuowen | “柔,木曲直也。从木,矛聲。” |
Sources
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