lǎo

to flood

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

尞 sound component

  Sound component

liào

  

burnt offering

Evolution

潦 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
潦 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
潦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
潦 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
潦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lǎo

to flood; a puddle; without care; flooded; heavy rain

Most common words with 潦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

潦倒

disappointed

潦草

careless

flooded

穷愁潦倒

destitute and troubled

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3739th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6F66

Shuowen

“潦,雨水大皃。从水,尞聲。”


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