ǎo

old woman

Evolution

媼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

() 

ǎo

old woman; lower-class woman

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤuʔ

'awX

ǎo

old woman


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5196th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+5ABC

Shuowen

“媼,女老偁也。从女,昷聲。讀若奧。”


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