缉
緝qī
#3,159 most
frequent character
to stitch finely
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
缉 has 纟 silk as its meaning part and 咠 qì as its sound part. Read qī, it first meant twisting hemp into rope, later stitching finely. Read jī, it means to arrest; that sense was borrowed for its sound, not from the silk or the old meaning.
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