liǔ

skein

A wrinkle  in a silk  garment;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
糹 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

silk

咎 meaning component

  Meaning component

jiù

  

fault

Evolution

綹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
綹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liǔ

skein; tuft, lock; wrinkle; tuft; lock

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4492nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DB9

Shuowen

“綹,緯十縷為綹。从糸,咎聲。讀若柳。”


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