cháo
nest
Pictograph of a nest (甾) in a tree (木).
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤraw | dzraew | cháo | nest |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.4370% of movies
2478th most common character in movies
2298th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5DE2 |
Shuowen | “巢,鳥在木上曰巢,在穴曰窠。从木,象形。” |
Sources
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