纽niǔ
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纽
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Shuowen
纽. The left side is the silk radical 纟, indicating a knot; the right side 丑 is a phonetic component. In oracle bone script the character depicted a knot formed by silk threads, giving the original meaning “to tie”. The shape was chosen because the semantic field concerns tying or fastening, and the phonetic component supplies the sound.
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niǔ· HSK 2