Chinese Character Wiki

殽

xiáo, yáo

mixed up

Evolution

殽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殽 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
殽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
殽 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
殽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

殽  

xiáo

mixed up, confused; cooked

淆 (殽) 

xiáo

variant of 淆[xiáo]

肴 (殽) 

yáo

variant of 肴[yáo]

Most common words with 殽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

混淆

to obscure

混淆视听

to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods

混淆是非

to confuse right and wrong (idiom)

淆

mixed

混淆黑白

to confuse black and white

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6979% of movies

3180th most common character in movies

3263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6BBD

Shuowen

“殽，相雜錯也。从殳，肴聲。”


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