lǎo
to flood
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3739th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6F66 |
Shuowen | “潦,雨水大皃。从水,尞聲。” |
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