繆 (móu)
absurd; wrong; surname Miao
How 繆 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 糹 — silk
- Traditional
- 繆
- Simplified
- 缪
Components
- 糹 silk
- 羽 feather
- 人 human
- 彡 bristle/beard
繆 has 4 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- miào
- surname Miao
- liǎo
- old variant of 缭
- móu
- to wind round
- mù
- old variant of 穆[mu4]
Common words using 繆
- 未雨綢繆 wèiyǔchóumóu
- lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to plan ahead; to prepare for a rainy day
- 綢繆 chóumóu
- to be sentimentally attached to sb or sth
繆 in a sentence
這個說法簡直太荒謬了。
Zhè ge shuōfǎ jiǎnzhí tài huāngmiù le.
“This statement is simply too absurd.”
How common is 繆?
繆 is the 3,280th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.4% of all running text.
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