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紐

niǔ

knot, button

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 丑 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

丑 sound component

丑  Sound component

chǒu

  

second earthly branch; (simp.) ugly

Evolution

紐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纽 (紐) 

niǔ

knot; button; handle, knob; tie; to turn; to wrench; nu (Greek letter Νν)

Most common words with 紐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纽约

New York

纽

to turn

枢纽

hinge

纽带

tie

纽约时报

New York Times (newspaper)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n<r>uʔ

nrjuwX

niǔ

fastener


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.6950% of movies

938th most common character in movies

1767th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

纽

Unicode

U+7D10

Shuowen

“紐，系也。一曰結而可解。从糸，丑聲。”


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