梭

suō
noun #10,860

Measure Word

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Meanings

  1. 1 shuttle (in weaving)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zhībùjī shàng de suōzi láihuí chuānsuō.
The shuttle on the loom goes back and forth.
HSK 7-9
Shíguāng rúsuō, zhuǎnyǎn jiù guòqù le shínián.
Time flies like a shuttle; ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Tips

usage
梭 appears in the idiom 日月如梭 (time flies like a shuttle) and the verb 穿梭 (to shuttle back and forth).

Components

radical
木 mù
tree; wood
木 marks 梭 as a wooden object - the weaver's shuttle is a small carved wooden bobbin that flies back and forth through the loom. Same radical in 桌, 椅, 棍 - wooden everyday tools.
phonetic
夋 qūn
to walk slowly (phonetic stem)
夋 supplies the sound, drifting from qūn to suō. You don't see 夋 as a standalone word today, but the same phonetic appears in 俊 jùn (handsome), 峻 jùn (steep), 唆 suō (instigate) - a related sound family.

Stroke Order

梭 suō