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绋 originally referred to a thick rope for hauling funeral biers or towing boats. It is a phono-semantic compound: the silk radical 纟 on the left marks its association with cordage, while the component 弗 on the right gives the pronunciation. The traditional form 紼 uses the unsimplified silk radical 糹 with the same phonetic. Due to its narrow ties to funeral rites and nautical hauling, the sense has remained specific, occurring mainly in historical records, classical texts on burial customs, and works dealing with ancient rigging and transport.
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