梭
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(textiles) shuttle
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 梭
- Common rank
- #2,681
- Unicode
- U+68AD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
shuttle · Heisig RSH #2475
木 tree + streetwalker
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 梭
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 日月如梭 | the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies! | |
| 梭子鱼 | barracuda | |
| 时空穿梭 | time travel | |
| 太空梭 | space shuttle | |
| 岁月如梭 | time flies (idiom) | |
| 摩梭族 | Mosuo ethnic group of Yunnan and Sichuan | |
| 肉毒梭状芽孢杆菌 | Clostridium botulinum | |
| 梭子 | (textiles) shuttle; cartridge clip; classifier for bullet clips and bursts of gunfire | |
| 梭鱼 | barracuda | |
| 梭哈 | five-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand") | |
| 梭标 | variant of 梭鏢|梭镖[suo1 biao1] | |
| 摩梭 | Mosuo ethnic group of Yunnan and Sichuan | |
| 穿梭 | to shuttle back and forth | |
| 卢梭 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Enlightenment philosopher | |
| 梭梭 | saxaul; sacsaoul (Haloxylon ammodendron) | |
| 梭镖 | spear |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夋 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夋 sound part | — | to dawdle; the emperor Yao's father |
| 俊 | talented, capable; handsome | |
| 峻 | high, steep, towering; stern | |
| 浚 | to dredge | |
| 唆 | to make mischief; to instigate, to incite | |
| 焌 | to ignite, to light | |
| 竣 | to terminate, to finish, to end; to quit | |
| 骏 | an excellent horse; a noble steed | |
| 逡 | to withdraw, to retreat, to fall back | |
| 黢 | black | |
| 悛 | to repent; to reform | |
| 狻 | a fabulous beast | |
| 皴 | chapped, cracked | |
| 睃 | to squint at |