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綴

zhuì, chuò

patch together

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 叕 represents the sound. Originally written as 叕, which depicted a person with their hands and feet tied up.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

叕 sound,iconic component

叕  Sound Iconic component

zhuó

  

to connect, to join together

Depicts a person (大) with their hands and feet tied up.

Evolution

綴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缀 (綴) 

zhuì

patch together, link, connect; to sew; to stitch together; to combine; to link; to connect; to put words together; to compose; to embellish

缀 (綴) 

chuò

variant of 輟|辍[chuò]

Most common words with 綴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

点缀

to decorate

缀

to sew

后缀

suffix (linguistics)

前缀

prefix (linguistics)

连缀

linking

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*trot

trjwet

chuò

stitch


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3002nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

缀

Unicode

U+7DB4

Shuowen

“綴，合箸也。从叕，从糸。”


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