jiū
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 old form of 纠, to twine or entangle (archaic)
  2. 2 a climbing vine (archaic)

Examples

Wǒmen bìxū jiānjué jiūzhèng zhè zhǒng cuòwù.
We must firmly correct 纠正 this kind of mistake.

Tips

history
is not used on its own in modern Chinese. It pictures two strands twisting together, the original graph for entangling. A silk radical was added to give the modern (to twist, to correct), and the same shape is the phonetic in and .
register
Archaic only — encountered in palaeography and etymology notes, never in modern writing.

Components

ideograph
jiū
to twine; entangle
Just two strokes hooking into each other, picturing two cords twisted together. Indexed under Kangxi radical by tradition. Adding silk gives ; it is also the sound in .

Filed under radical (shù, #2) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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