xù
end of thread
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-m-taʔ | zjoX | xù | arrange in order |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.5577% of movies
1352nd most common character in movies
1413th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DD2 |
Shuowen | “緒，絲耑也。从糸，者聲。” |
Sources
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