xiāo
owl thus
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 梟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
drug pusher | ||
owl | ||
formidable person | ||
to behead | ||
to behead sb and display the head in public |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0412% of movies
3274th most common character in movies
3885th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+689F |
Shuowen | “梟,不孝鳥也。日至,捕梟磔之。从鳥頭在木上。” |
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