jiǎo
twist
Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound. Simplified form of 絞.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 绞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to wring | ||
to strangle | ||
angina | ||
to execute by hanging | ||
to rack one's brains |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2928% of movies
2521st most common character in movies
2672nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7EDE |
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