hàoháo

call, mark

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

丂 sound component

  Sound component

kǎo

  

axe handle

Evolution

号 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
号 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
号 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
号 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hào

mark, sign; symbol; number; ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people

() 

háo

roar; cry; CL:|[gè]

Most common words with 号
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mark

号码

number

信号

signal

称号

name

口号

slogan

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤaw-s

hawH

hào

command, call (n.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 74.8518% of movies

339th most common character in movies

487th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+53F7

Shuowen

“号,痛聲也。从口,在丂上。”


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