jewel in shape of tiger

A tiger's eye  stone  also provides the pronunciation

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

虎 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

tiger

Evolution

琥 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
琥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
琥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jewel in shape of tiger; amber

Most common words with 琥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

琥珀

amber

amber

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4456th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7425

Shuowen

“琥,發兵瑞玉。為虎文。从玉,从虎,虎亦聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘賜子家雙琥。’”


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