xiāo

sound of beating wind and rain

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

蕭 sound component

  Sound component

xiāo

  

common artemisia

Evolution

瀟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瀟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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xiāo

sound of beating wind and rain; light, ethereal; (of water) deep and clear; (of wind and rain) howling and pounding; (of light rain) pattering

Most common words with 瀟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

潇洒

free and easy

潇湘

other name of the Xiangjiang river 湘江[Xiāng​jiāng] in Hunan province

(of water) deep and clear

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3455% of movies

3333rd most common character in movies

3216th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+701F

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“瀟,水名。从水,蕭聲。”


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