ào

proud

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

敖 sound component

  Sound component

áo

  

ramble, stroll, roam

Evolution

傲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
傲 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
傲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ào

proud, haughty, overbearing; proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy

Most common words with 傲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骄傲

pride

proud

傲慢

arrogant

高傲

arrogant

自傲

arrogance

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.8461% of movies

1305th most common character in movies

1960th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+50B2

Shuowen

“傲,倨也。从人,敖聲。”


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