梳
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to comb; (bound form) a comb
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 梳
- Common rank
- #2,757
- Unicode
- U+68B3
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
comb · Heisig RSH #685
木 tree + baby Moses
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 梳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 梳子 | comb; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 梳头 | to comb one's hair; to comb sb's hair | |
| 头梳 | comb | |
| 梳化 | (film and TV) hair and makeup | |
| 梳理 | to comb; fig. to sort out | |
| 梳妆台 | dressing table | |
| 梳洗 | to wash and groom oneself; to freshen up | |
| 梳妆室 | boudoir; lady's dressing room | |
| 燕梳 | (dialect) insurance (loanword) | |
| 梳弄 | (old) to deflorate a prostitute | |
| 梳乎厘 | (HK) (loanword) soufflé | |
| 梳妆 | to dress and groom oneself | |
| 爬梳 | to comb through (historical documents etc); to unravel | |
| 梳芙厘 | soufflé (loanword) | |
| 梳篦 | combs (in general); (archaic) to comb one's hair |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 㐬 — compare how they read.