ráo
bent or twisted piece of wood
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[n]ˤrew-s | nraewH | náo | bent wood |
*[ŋ]ew (< uvular?) | nyew | ráo | oar |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5406th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6A48 |
Shuowen | “橈，曲木。从木，堯聲。” |
Sources
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