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绺

liǔ

Character Traditional 綹

What 绺 means

1. skein
2. tuft
3. lock

Words containing 绺

• 发绺fà liǔtresses; dreadlocks

Characters that look like 绺

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 缔dì(archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to form an enduring union…
• 脂zhīfat; rouge (cosmetics); resin
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 矫jiáoused in 矫情
• 烩huìto braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚

Sounds the same

Read liǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 柳willow
• 珋(literary) lustrous precious stone
• 罶creel; fish basket
• 羀old variant of 罶

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read liǔ correctly.
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