xiāo, xiào
cough
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 孝 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.0754% of movies
2661st most common character in movies
2908th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+54EE |
Shuowen | “哮，豕驚聲也。从口，孝聲。” |
Sources
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