chuò, chāo
graceful
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 卓 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 綽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
nickname | ||
enough and to spare (idiom) | ||
ample | ||
ostentatious | ||
graceful |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰawk | tsyhak | chuò | indulgent, gentle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.4919% of movies
2613th most common character in movies
2930th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DBD |
Shuowen | “繛,也。从素,卓聲。綽,繛或省。” |
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