纾

紓
shū
verb #39,722

Meanings

  1. 1 to relieve; to ease (a difficulty)
  2. 2 to slacken; to delay

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zhèngfǔ chūtái zhèngcè, yǐ shū jiě xiǎo qǐyè de kùnnán.
The government rolled out policies to relieve the difficulties of small businesses.

Tips

history
纾 is literary and rarely used alone. It survives chiefly in the formal compound 纾困 ('to relieve hardship', common in economic news) and the classical 以纾国难 ('to relieve the nation's peril').
register
Formal and literary - policy, financial, and classical writing; everyday speech uses 缓解 ('to ease') instead.

Components

radical
纟 sī
silk; thread
纟 is the silk radical 糸 in left-side form. A loosened thread pictures slackening - easing tension or hardship.
phonetic
予 yǔ
to give; I
予 gives the sound (drifted to shū). The same phonetic appears in 舒 (relaxed / to stretch) and 预 (beforehand).

Stroke Order

纾 shū