Chinese Character Wiki

縊

yì

hang

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

thread

益 sound component

益  Sound component

yì

  

benefit

Evolution

縊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缢 (縊) 

yì

hang, strangle; (literary) to die by hanging or strangulation

Most common words with 縊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缢

to hang

自缢

to hang oneself

缢死

to hang oneself

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤ[i]k-s

'ejH

yì

strangle

*q[i]k-s

'jieH

yì

strangle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4965th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

缢

Unicode

U+7E0A

Shuowen

“縊，經也。从糸，益聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘夷姜縊。’”


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