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唠

láo, lào

chat

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 劳 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嘮.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

劳 sound component

劳  Sound component

láo

  

labor

Evolution

唠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
唠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
唠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

唠 (嘮) 

láo

chat, jaw, gossip, talk; to chatter

唠 (嘮) 

lào

to gossip; to chat (dialect)

Most common words with 唠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

唠叨

to prattle

唠

to gossip

唠嗑

to gossip

叨唠

to nag

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.0205% of movies

2580th most common character in movies

3399th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

嘮

Unicode

U+5520


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