lǚ
thread
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 婁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 縷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
strand | ||
linked in countless ways | ||
to analyze thoroughly, point by point (idiom) | ||
hanging by a thread | ||
the hardships of beginning an undertaking (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]oʔ | ljuX | lǚ | thread |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2894th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E37 |
Shuowen | “縷,綫也。从糸,婁聲。” |
Sources
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