táo
peach
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.lˤaw | daw | táo | peach |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 9.7870% of movies
1825th most common character in movies
1839th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6843 |
Shuowen | “桃，果也。从木，兆聲。” |
Sources
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