zhuì

unnecessary

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
敖 meaning component

  Meaning component

áo

  

ramble, stroll, roam

贝 sound component

  Sound component

bèi

  

sea shell

Evolution

赘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
赘 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
赘 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhuì

unnecessary, superfluous; superfluous; redundant; cumbersome; refers to a son-in-law living with wife's family

Most common words with 赘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

累赘

superfluous

superfluous

赘述

to say more than is necessary

赘言

superfluous words

入赘

to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3936% of movies

3292nd most common character in movies

3574th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D58


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