cuò

push down

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

坐 sound component

  Sound component

zuò

  

sit

Evolution

挫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cuò

push down; chop down; grind; obstructed; to fail; to oppress; to repress; to lower the tone; to bend back; to dampen

Most common words with 挫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挫折

setback

to fail

挫败

to thwart

受挫

thwarted

挫折感

frustration

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3019% of movies

2526th most common character in movies

2426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+632B

Shuowen

“挫,摧也。从手,聲。”


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