áo

bent and twisted

Components
敖 sound component

  Sound component

áo

  

ramble, stroll, roam

耳 meaning component

  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

ear

Evolution

聱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

áo

bent and twisted; too complicated; difficult to pronounce

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6515th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8071

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“聱,不聽也。从耳,敖聲。”


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