páo

roar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

包 sound component

  Sound component

bāo

  

wrap

Evolution

咆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

páo

roar; to roar

Most common words with 咆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

咆哮

to roar

to roar

咆哮如雷

to be in a thundering rage (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6178% of movies

3121st most common character in movies

3369th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5486

Shuowen

“咆,噑也。从口,包聲。”


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