jiǎo
twist
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 絞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to wring | ||
to strangle | ||
angina | ||
to execute by hanging | ||
to rack one's brains |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-rˤ[i]wʔ (dialect: *k.rˤ- > *kˤr-) | kaewX | jiǎo | twist; strangle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2928% of movies
2521st most common character in movies
2672nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D5E |
Shuowen | “絞,縊也。从交,从糸。” |
Sources
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