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strong and pliable
Phonosemantic compound. 韋 represents the meaning and 刃 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2745% of movies
2979th most common character in movies
3137th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+97CC |
Shuowen | “韌,柔而固也。从韋,刃聲。” |
Sources
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