yáo
sing
Phonosemantic compound. 䍃 represents the meaning and 言 represents the sound.
Evolution
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*law | yew | yáo | sing; song |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.4323% of movies
2172nd most common character in movies
2600th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B20 |
Sources
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