Chinese Character Wiki

绰

chuò, chāo

graceful

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 卓 represents the sound. Simplified form of 綽.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

卓 sound component

卓  Sound component

zhuō, zhuó

  

profound

Evolution

绰 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
绰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
绰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
绰 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绰 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

绰 (綽) 

chuò

graceful, delicate; spacious; generous; ample; wide; well-off; to grip

绰 (綽) 

chāo

to grab; to snatch up; variant of 焯[chāo]

Most common words with 绰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绰号

nickname

绰绰有余

enough and to spare (idiom)

绰

ample

阔绰

ostentatious

风姿绰约

graceful

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4919% of movies

2613th most common character in movies

2930th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

綽

Unicode

U+7EF0


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