suō

weaver's shuttle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

夋 sound component

  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

梭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

suō

weaver's shuttle; go to and fro; shuttle (textiles); to move back and fro

Most common words with 梭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shuttle (textiles)

穿梭

to shuttle

梭子

shuttle (textile)

梭鱼

barracuda

梭子鱼

barracuda

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.3638% of movies

2400th most common character in movies

2681st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+68AD

Shuowen

“梭,木也。从木,夋聲。”


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