jiāo

spray

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

堯 sound component

  Sound component

yáo

  

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Evolution

澆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
澆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiāo

spray, water, sprinkle; to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold

Most common words with 澆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to water

浇水

to water (plants etc)

浇灌

to water

火上浇油

to enrage people and make matters worse

浇注

to cast (metal)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.4370% of movies

2562nd most common character in movies

2866th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6F86

Shuowen

“澆,也。从水,堯聲。”


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