彫
diāo
carve
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤiw | tew | diāo | engrave, carve |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.0959% of movies
2035th most common character in movies
1829th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5F6B |
Shuowen | “彫，琢文也。从彡，周聲。” |
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