liǔ

skein

A wrinkle  in a silk  garment;  also provides the pronunciation

Components

SoundMeaning component
silk
Meaning component
jiù, gāo fault

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡ·rɯwʔ

說文解字

緯十縷爲綹。从糸咎聲。讀若柳。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

liǔ skein Simplified

A wrinkle  in a silk  garment;  also provides the pronunciation

Components

SoundMeaning component
silk
Meaning component
jiù, gāo fault

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode