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脩

xiū

dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 攸 represents the sound.

Components
攸 sound component

攸  Sound component

yōu

  

distant

⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

Evolution

脩 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
脩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
脩 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
脩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

脩  

xiū

dried meat (used as teachers payment in ancient times)

修 (脩) 

xiū

dried meat; private teacher's remuneration; withered; variant of 修[xiū]

Most common words with 脩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

修

to decorate

修改

to amend

装修

to decorate

维修

maintenance (of equipment)

修复

to restore

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-liw

sjuw

xiū

dried meat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 46.2118% of movies

764th most common character in movies

740th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8129

Shuowen

“脩，脯也。从肉，攸聲。”


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