tie

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

帝 sound component

  Sound component

  

supreme ruler

Evolution

締 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
締 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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tie, join, connect; connection; closely joined; knot

Most common words with 締
Freq.
Word
Meaning

取缔

to suppress

缔造

to found

缔结

to conclude (an agreement)

缔造者

founder

knot

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2688th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DE0

Shuowen

“締,結不解也。从糸,帝聲。”


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