jiǎo
disturb
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 覺 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤruʔ | kaewX | jiǎo | disturb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.8235% of movies
1839th most common character in movies
2679th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+652A |
Shuowen | “攪,亂也。从手,覺聲。《詩》曰:‘祇攪我心。’” |
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