熨 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yùn, yù

iron

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 尉 represents the sound. Originally written as 尉.

Components

wèi

officer

Depicts a hand (寸) holding two stones over fire (火) to iron a person's (尸) back as a treatment for a disease.

火 Meaning component

huǒ

fire

Definitions

yùn

iron, press; an iron; to iron

yù

reconciled; smooth

Most common words with 熨

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	熨	smooth
	熨斗	clothes iron

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4256% of movies

3063rd most common character in movies

4498th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+71A8

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