shāo
pointed tip of something long like a branch
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4416% of movies
3291st most common character in movies
2785th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+68A2 |
Shuowen | “梢,木也。从木,肖聲。” |
Sources
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