Chinese Character Wiki

絞

jiǎo

twist

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

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

交 sound component

交  Sound component

jiāo

  

to cross

Evolution

絞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
絞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绞 (絞) 

jiǎo

twist, wring; intertwine; winch; to twist (strands into a thread); to entangle; to wring; to hang (by the neck); to turn; to wind; classifier for skeins of yarn

Most common words with 絞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绞

to wring

绞死

to strangle

心绞痛

angina

绞刑

to execute by hanging

绞尽脑汁

to rack one's brains

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k-rˤ[i]wʔ (dialect: *k.rˤ- > *kˤr-)

kaewX

jiǎo

twist; strangle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.2928% of movies

2521st most common character in movies

2672nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

绞

Unicode

U+7D5E

Shuowen

“絞，縊也。从交，从糸。”


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