刷 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shuāshuà HSK4

brush

Depicts a person squatting (尸) and holding a utensil (刂 ) attached to a cloth (巾) to scrub or clean something.

Components

尸 Iconic component

shī sitting person

Depicts a person squatting.

巾 Iconic component

jīn cloth

刂 Iconic component

dāo knife

Used here to depict a utensil held in the hand. The variant character 㕞 used the 又 (hand) component instad.

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	srjwet	[s]r[o]t (dialect: retains MC srj-)	brush (v.)
	srwaet	[s]r[o]t	brush (v.)

《說文》：“刷，刮也。从刀，省聲。《禮》：‘布刷巾。’”