xuē, xiāo
scrape off
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[sˤ]rewk-s | sraewH | shào | zone near the capital |
*[s]ewk | sjak | xiāo | scrape, pare |
*[s]ewk-s | sjewH | xiào | scrape, pare |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.4942% of movies
2443rd most common character in movies
1794th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+524A |
Shuowen | “削,鞞也。一曰析也。从刀,肖聲。” |
Sources
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