叕
zhuó

to connect, to join together

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Modern form

Changed fields: components

Depicts a person with their hands and feet tied up, conveying the meaning "to join together". Original form of 綴. Not related to 又 (hand), despite the visual similarity.

Components

大
大 Iconic component

Depicts a person.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 大 than it was in ancient scripts.
◎
◎ Iconic component

Depicts tied up hands and feet.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttrjwejHtrot-s stitch (n.?)
trjwettrot stitch

說文解字

《說文》：“叕，綴聯也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)