yǎo
obscure
The sun 日 setting below the woods 木
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 杳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to have no news whatever | ||
disappear | ||
far and indistinct | ||
to be gone forever (idiom) | ||
God-forsaken |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4293rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6773 |
Shuowen | “杳，冥也。从日在木下。” |
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