suō
noun #10,860

Measure Word

一个

Meanings

  1. 1 shuttle (in weaving)

Examples

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

Tips

usage
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
tree; wood
marks 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 , , — wooden everyday tools.
phonetic
qūn
to walk slowly (phonetic stem)
supplies the sound, drifting from qūn to suō. You don't see as a standalone word today, but the same phonetic appears in jùn (handsome), jùn (steep), suō (instigate) — a related sound family.

Stroke Order

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