Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer
Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.
纣 (zhòu)
Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣[zhou4], the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse); crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
Tone Fan-out (纣)
How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:
Family Characters (2)
Root: 纣Zhou, pejorative name given posthumously to the last king of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] (the name refers to a crupper 紂|纣[zhou4], the piece of horse tack most likely to be soiled by the horse); crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
(dialect) to wrap with straw; classifier for a bundle (of bowls, dishes etc) tied with straw