xù
waste cotton
Phonosemantic compound. 糸 represents the meaning and 如 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 絮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bits of news | ||
cotton wadding | ||
long-winded | ||
long-winded | ||
cotton wadding |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-na-s | sjoH | xù | raw silk, floss |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3135% of movies
3206th most common character in movies
3125th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7D6E |
Shuowen | “絮，敝緜也。从糸，如聲。” |
Sources
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