xiāo
be noisy
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 囂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
rampant | ||
to hoot | ||
to clamor | ||
clamor | ||
to raise a tremendous stink |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]ˤaw | ngaw | áo | clamor, many voices; arrogant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.1784% of movies
3043rd most common character in movies
2982nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+56C2 |
Shuowen | “囂，聲也。气出頭上，从，从頁。頁，首也。” |
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