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搖

yáo

wag, shake

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 䍃 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

䍃 sound component

䍃  Sound component

yóu, yáo

  

vase, pitcher

Evolution

搖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
搖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
搖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

摇 (搖) 

yáo

wag, swing, wave; shake; scull; to shake; to rock; to row; to crank

摇 (搖) 

Yáo

surname Yao

Most common words with 搖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

摇

to shake

摇滚

to rock

摇头

to shake one's head

动摇

to sway

摇摆

to sway

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*law

yew

yáo

shake


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.0612% of movies

1163rd most common character in movies

940th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

摇

Unicode

U+6416

Shuowen

“搖，動也。从手，聲。”


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