sǎo
sister-in-law
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 叟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 嫂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sister-in-law | ||
sister-in-law | ||
sister-in-law | ||
sister-in-law | ||
serviceman's wife |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.8490% of movies
3260th most common character in movies
2142nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5AC2 |
Shuowen | “，兄妻也。从女，叜聲。” |
Sources
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