zhǎo
lake
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 召 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tawʔ | tsyewX | zhǎo | pool |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9313% of movies
2452nd most common character in movies
2480th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CBC |
Shuowen | “沼，池水。从水，召聲。” |
Sources
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