Chinese Character Wiki

繻

xū

fine silk gauze

Evolution

繻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

𦈡 (繻) 

xū

fine silk gauze; torn piece of silk; multicolored silk; piece of silk torn in two, used to verify the holder's identity by matching up the two halves

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

𦈡

Unicode

U+7E7B

Shuowen

“繻，繒采色。从糸，需聲。讀若《易》：‘繻有衣’。”


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