zào, sào
chirping of birds
Depicts three mouths (品) of birds chirping atop a tree (木).
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+55BF |
Shuowen | “喿,鳥羣鳴也。从品在木上。” |
Sources
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