sù
raw silk, white, plain
Depicts raw silk (糸) hanging from a rack.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
sù
white (silk); plain; vegetarian; formerly; normally; raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤak-s | suH | sù | white silk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 29.7293% of movies
1139th most common character in movies
661st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7D20 |
Shuowen | “素,白緻繒也。从糸、,取其澤也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.891-892
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