敖 - Dong Chinese dictionary

áo, aó

ramble, stroll, roam

Originally a pictograph of a person (人) taking a stroll amid plants (屮). The 攵 component was added later.

Components

屮 Iconic component

chè

sprout

Depicts plants.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 屮 than it was in ancient scripts.

人 Iconic component

rén

person

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.

攵 Meaning component

pū

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Evolution

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

敖

áo

ramble, play about; leisurely; surname; to ramble; to rove; old variant of 熬[áo]

敖

Aó

surname Ao

Most common words with 敖

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	敖	to ramble
	敖德萨	Odessa (city in Ukraine)
	敖汉旗	Aohan banner or Aokhan khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chìfēng], Inner Mongolia
	敖广	Ao Guang
	敖顺	Ao Shun, Dragon King of the North Sea in 西遊記\|西游记[XīyóuJì]

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)

贅赘遨骜

Sound component in 12 characters (1 verified)

傲熬鰲鳌嗷遨鏊骜螯獒聱廒

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ŋ]ˤaw	ngaw	áo	tall
*ŋˤaw	ngaw	áo	saunter about

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3573rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+6556
Shuowen	“敖，出游也。从出，从放。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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