diāo
be withered
Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 周 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤiw | tew | diāo | wither (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3675th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+51CB |
Shuowen | “凋，半傷也。从仌，周聲。” |
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