shāo
to select
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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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