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尥

liào

Original meaning: 

to kick backward with the hind legs

Phonosemantic compound. 尢 represents the meaning and 勺 represents the sound.

Components
尢 meaning component

尢  Meaning component

yóu, wāng

  

lame

Not to be confused with a variant of 尤 (wart). 尢 here is derived from 尣 (curved legs).

勺 sound component

勺  Sound component

sháo

  

spoon

Evolution

尥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尥  

liào

to give a backward kick (e.g. of a horse)

Most common words with 尥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尥

to give a backward kick (e.g. of a horse)

尥蹶子

to kick with the hind legs

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

抛

Remnant component in 1 character (0 verified)

抛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5851st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5C25

Shuowen

“尥，行脛相交也。从尢，勺聲。牛行腳相交為尥。”


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