ào

a hollow in the ground

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

幼 sound component

  Sound component

yòu

  

young, infant

Evolution

坳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ào

a hollow in the ground, a cavity, depression; undulating, depressed; a depression; cavity; hollow

() 

ào

variant of [ào]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4450th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5773

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“坳,地不平也。从土,幼聲。”


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