描 - Dong Chinese dictionary

miáo

copy, trace

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 苗 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

苗 Sound component

miáo

sprouts

Definitions

miáo

copy, trace, sketch; depict; to depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy; to touch up

Most common words with 描

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 22.5853% of movies

1444th most common character in movies

1246th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	11
Unicode	U+63CF

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