suō
weaver's shuttle
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 夋 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 梭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
shuttle (textiles) | ||
to shuttle | ||
shuttle (textile) | ||
barracuda | ||
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。” |
Sources
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