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奥

ào, aò

mysterious

Original meaning: 

to store

Simplified form of 奧. Depicts two hands (廾) hiding rice (米) in a corner or a container. Based on the original meaning "to store". The meaning later shifted to "obscure", "profound", and "mysterious".

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a hidden corner or a container.

米 iconic component

米  Iconic component

mǐ

  

rice

Depicts grains of rice.

廾 iconic component

廾  Iconic component

gǒng

  

two hands

Depicts two hands.

Evolution

奥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奥 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
奥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
奥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

奥 (奧) 

ào

mysterious, obscure, profound; obscure; mysterious

奥 (奧) 

Aò

Austria; Austrian; abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Aò​dì​lì]; Olympic; Olympics; abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Aò​lín​pǐ​kè]

Most common words with 奥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奥

Austria

奥运

Olympic Games

奥运会

Olympic Games

奥斯卡

(name) Oscar

奥迪

Audi

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

噢 澳 懊 襖 燠

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.2465% of movies

706th most common character in movies

972nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

奧

Unicode

U+5965


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