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疏

shū

wide apart

Original meaning: 

unblock, get things flowing

Phonosemantic compound. 疋 represents the sound and 㐬 represents the meaning. Based on the original meaning "unblock, get things flowing". The meaning later shifted to "open up", "sparse", "wide apart", and "neglect".

Components
疋 sound component

疋  Sound component

pǐ, shū, yǎ

  

foot

㐬 meaning component

㐬  Meaning component

liú

  

birth

Evolution

疏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
疏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
疏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

疏  

shū

neglect; careless, lax; to dredge; to clear away obstruction; thin; sparse; scanty; distant (relation); not close; to neglect; negligent; to present a memorial to the Emperor; commentary; annotation

疏  

Shū

surname Shu

疏 (疎) 

shū

variant of 疏[shū]

Most common words with 疏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

疏散

to scatter

疏远

to drift apart

疏忽

to neglect

疏

thin

疏通

to unblock

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

蔬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sra

srjo

shū

wide apart


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.7389% of movies

2060th most common character in movies

1897th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+758F

Shuowen

“疏，通也。从，从疋，疋亦聲。”


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