dāo, tāo
talkative
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 刀 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 叨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to prattle | ||
garrulous | ||
to talk about often | ||
long-winded | ||
long-winded |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.9747% of movies
2344th most common character in movies
2844th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+53E8 |
Shuowen | “饕，貪也。从食，號聲。叨，饕或从口，刀聲。號，籀文饕从號省。” |
Sources
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