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修

xiū

decorate, embellish, repair

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

Components
攸 sound component

攸  Sound component

yōu

  

distant

彡 meaning component

彡  Meaning component

shān

  

hair

Evolution

修 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
修 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
修 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
修 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

修  

xiū

study; repair; cultivate; to decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to write; to cultivate; to study; to take (a class)

修  

Xiū

surname Xiu

修 (脩) 

xiū

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

Most common words with 修
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

adorn


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 46.2118% of movies

764th most common character in movies

740th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FEE

Shuowen

“修，飾也。从彡，攸聲。”


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