ruǎn

flexible, soft, weak

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

Components
车 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

欠 simplified component

  Simplified component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

is shorthand for the phonetic component in the variant character .

Evolution

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
软 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ruǎn

soft, flexible, pliable; weak; soft; flexible

() 

ruǎn

variant of |[ruǎn]

Most common words with 软
Freq.
Word
Meaning

软件

(computer) software

soft

软弱

weak

柔软

soft

微软

Microsoft corporation

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 23.4823% of movies

1446th most common character in movies

1043rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+8F6F


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