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shuā HSK4

brush

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Depicts a person squatting (尸) and holding a cloth (巾) with their hand (又) to scrub or clean something.

Components

尸 Iconic component

Depicts a person squatting.

巾 Iconic component

又 Iconic component

The modern form has 刂 (knife), but originally was written 㕞 with the 又 (hand) component.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

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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。’”