Chinese Character Wiki

雘

wò, huò

dye made from red soil

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

雘  

wò

dye made from red soil; ochre

雘  

huò

red earth used for paints

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+96D8

Shuowen

“雘，善丹也。从丹，蒦聲。《周書》曰：‘惟其丹雘。’讀若隺。”


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