杼 (zhù) · the shuttle of a loom (classical)

Meanings

1 the shuttle of a loom (classical)

Characters

杼

zhù

loom shuttle (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9

杼柚其空

Zhù zhú qí kōng

The classical line "杼柚其空" means "the loom's shuttle and warp lie idle".

Tips

history

杼 is not used alone in modern Chinese; weaving vocabulary uses 梭 for the shuttle today. It survives in the literary 机杼 (loom; by extension, originality of composition). The quoted line is from the Book of Songs. It joins the wood radical 木 with 予 for the sound.

register

Classical and bound - found in old poetry and the literary word 机杼, not in everyday speech.