jiāo
spray
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 澆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to water | ||
to water (plants etc) | ||
to water | ||
to enrage people and make matters worse | ||
to cast (metal) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.4370% of movies
2562nd most common character in movies
2866th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6F86 |
Shuowen | “澆，也。从水，堯聲。” |
Sources
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