reddish color

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

是 sound component

  Sound component

shì

  

is

Evolution

緹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
緹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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reddish color, red, brown; orange-red silk; orange-red colored

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.2723% of movies

3297th most common character in movies

5794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DF9

Shuowen

“緹,帛丹黃色。从糸,是聲。衹,緹或从氏。”


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