jiǎo

disturb

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

覺 sound component

  Sound component

juéjiào

  

feel, think

Evolution

攪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
攪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiǎo

disturb, agitate, stir up; to disturb; to annoy; to mix; to stir

Most common words with 攪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to disturb

打搅

to disturb

搅拌

to stir

搅和

to mix (up)

搅乱

to disrupt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤruʔ

kaewX

jiǎo

disturb


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.8235% of movies

1839th most common character in movies

2679th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+652A

Shuowen

“攪,亂也。从手,覺聲。《詩》曰:‘祇攪我心。’”


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