decorative

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

silk

辱 sound component

  Sound component

  

humiliate

Evolution

縟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

decorative, adorned, elegant; adorned; beautiful

Most common words with 縟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

繁文缛节

mumbo-jumbo

adorned

繁缛

many and elaborate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nok

nyowk

variegated


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5057th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E1F

Shuowen

“縟,繁采色也。从糸,辱聲。”


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