寽

lǜ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a handful; a pinch (archaic)
  2. 2 ancient Shang weight unit (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā qīngqīng lǚ le lǚ húzi.
He gently stroked his beard a few times.

Tips

history
寽 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It depicts fingers picking up a small thing and survives only as the phonetic and meaning core of 捋 (to stroke / strip off by hand) and a family of bronze-inscription forms. In Shang bronze texts it also named a unit of weight.
register
Archaic and classical only. You will meet 寽 in palaeography and etymology notes, never in modern writing or speech.

Components

ideograph
寽 lǜ
a handful; a pinch
Treated as a single unit: a clawing hand 爫 over a hand-with-thumb 寸, picturing fingers pinching up a small object. Indexed under Kangxi radical 寸 by tradition. The whole graph is the phonetic in 捋.

Filed under radical 寸 (cùn, #41) by convention. 寸 is not a separate component in 寽, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

寽 lǜ