Chinese Character Wiki

緒

xù

end of thread

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

者 sound component

者  Sound component

zhě

  

one who...

Evolution

緒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緒 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
緒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绪 (緒) 

xù

end of thread; thread; beginnings; clues; mental state

Most common words with 緒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

情绪

mood

头绪

outline

就绪

to be ready

思绪

mood

情绪化

emotional

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-m-taʔ

zjoX

xù

arrange in order


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.5577% of movies

1352nd most common character in movies

1413th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

绪

Unicode

U+7DD2

Shuowen

“緒，絲耑也。从糸，者聲。”


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