shāo

to select

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

肖 sound component

  Sound component

xiàoxiāo

  

look like

Evolution

捎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
捎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shāo

to select; to take; to carry; to bring sth to sb; to deliver

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤew

sew

shāo

eliminate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1144% of movies

3061st most common character in movies

3603rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+634E

Shuowen

“捎,自關已西,凡取物之上者為撟捎。从手,肖聲。”


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