zhuì
unnecessary
Phonosemantic compound. 敖 represents the meaning and 贝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 贅.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 赘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
superfluous | ||
superfluous | ||
to say more than is necessary | ||
superfluous words | ||
to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3936% of movies
3292nd most common character in movies
3574th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D58 |
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