ào

mysterious

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

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

𢍏 sound,unknown component

𢍏  Sound Unknown component

juàn

  

to roll rice into ball

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

() 

ào

mysterious, obscure, profound; obscure; mysterious

() 

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

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)

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

Unicode

U+5965


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