zhuì, chuò
patch together
Simplified form of 綴. Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 叕 represents the sound. Originally written as 叕, which depicted a person with their hands and feet tied up.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 缀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to decorate | ||
to sew | ||
suffix (linguistics) | ||
prefix (linguistics) | ||
linking |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3002nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7F00 |
Sources
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