ào

mysterious

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 𢍏 represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

𢍏 sound component

𢍏  Sound component

juàn

  

to roll rice into ball

Evolution

奧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奧 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
奧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
奧 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
奧 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 奧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Austria

奥运

Olympic Games

奥运会

Olympic Games

奥斯卡

(name) Oscar

奥迪

Audi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤuk-s

'awH

ào

southwest corner of a house

*ʔ(r)uk

'juwk

cove in the bank of a stream


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

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+5967

Shuowen

“奧,宛也。室之西南隅。从宀,聲。”


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