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擾

rǎo

disturb

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 憂 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

憂 sound component

憂  Sound component

yōu

  

sad

Evolution

擾 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
擾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
擾 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扰 (擾) 

rǎo

disturb, annoy, agitate; to disturb

Most common words with 擾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

打扰

to disturb

干扰

to disturb

困扰

to perplex

骚扰

to disturb

扰

to disturb

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.3742% of movies

927th most common character in movies

1483rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

扰

Unicode

U+64FE

Shuowen

“，煩也。从手，夒聲。”


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