shào

surname

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

召 sound component

  Sound component

zhàoshào

  

summon

Evolution

邵 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
邵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
邵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shào

surname; various place names

 

Shào

surname Shao; place name

Most common words with 邵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Shao

邵阳

Shaoyang prefecture level city in Hunan

邵逸夫

Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon

邵阳市

Shaoyang prefecture level city in Hunan

邵武

Shaowu county level city in Nanping 南平[Nán​píng] Fujian

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]aw-s

dzyewH

shào

(place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2814th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+90B5

Shuowen

“邵,晉邑也。从邑,召聲。”


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