hào, háo
call, mark
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 丂 represents the sound. Simplified form of 號.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤaw-s | hawH | hào | command, call (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 74.8518% of movies
339th most common character in movies
487th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+53F7 |
Shuowen | “号,痛聲也。从口,在丂上。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.393
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