waste cotton

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糸 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

如 sound component

  Sound component

  

be like

Evolution

絮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
絮 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
絮 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

waste cotton, raw silk or cotton; cotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded

Most common words with 絮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

花絮

bits of news

cotton wadding

絮叨

long-winded

絮絮叨叨

long-winded

棉絮

cotton wadding

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-na-s

sjoH

raw silk, floss


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3135% of movies

3206th most common character in movies

3125th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7D6E

Shuowen

“絮,敝緜也。从糸,如聲。”


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