fèngféng

sew

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

thread

逢 sound component

  Sound component

féng

  

come upon

Evolution

縫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fèng

sew, mend; seam; crack; narrow slit; CL:[dào]

() 

féng

to sew; to stitch

Most common words with 縫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

seam

裂缝

crack

缝合

to sew together

缝隙

chink

裁缝

tailor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*(mə-)[b](r)oŋ (~ *C.[b](r)oŋ)

bjowng

féng

sew

*C.[b](r)oŋ-s

bjowngH

fèng

seam


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.8967% of movies

1580th most common character in movies

1852nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E2B

Shuowen

“縫,以鍼紩衣也。从糸,逢聲。”


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