绌 — Chinese character
绌
chù
to stitch, to sew; insufficient
- Pinyin
- chù
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 纟 出
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 纟; sound component 出
- Traditional
- 絀
Common words with 绌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 左支右绌 (左支右絀) | zuǒ zhī yòu chù | to be in straitened circumstances |
| 相形见绌 (相形見絀) | xiāng xíng jiàn chù | to pale by comparison (idiom) |
| 心余力绌 (心餘力絀) | xīn yú lì chù | see 心有余而力不足 (xīn yǒu yú ér lì bù zú) |
| 岁计余绌 (歲計餘絀) | suì jì yú chù | annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy) |
| 紧绌 (緊絀) | jǐn chù | supply shortage |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.