xiù
sleeve
Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 袖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
leader | ||
sleeve | ||
long sleeves | ||
to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger | ||
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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