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袖

xiù

sleeve

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

由 sound component

由  Sound component

yóu

  

cause

Evolution

袖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
袖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
袖 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
袖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

袖  

xiù

sleeve; put something in sleeve; to tuck inside one's sleeve

Most common words with 袖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

领袖

leader

袖

sleeve

长袖

long sleeves

袖手旁观

to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger

袖子

sleeve

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.[l]u-s

zjuwH

xiù

sleeve


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 12.3338% of movies

1861st most common character in movies

1686th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8896

Shuowen

“褎，袂也。从衣，聲。袖，俗褎从由。”


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