shāo

pointed tip of something long like a branch

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

肖 sound component

  Sound component

xiàoxiāo

  

look like

Evolution

梢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shāo

pointed tip of something long like a branch; rudder; tip of branch

Most common words with 梢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tip of branch

末梢

tip

盯梢

to tail

树梢

treetop

发梢

hair ends

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。”


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