ào, aò
inlet
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 奥 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 澳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Australia | ||
Australia | ||
cove | ||
Macao | ||
Hong Kong 香港 and Macao 澳門|澳门 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤuk-s | 'awH | ào | bay, cove |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.8924% of movies
2276th most common character in movies
1627th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6FB3 |
Shuowen | “澳，隈厓也。其內曰澳，其外曰隈。从水，奧聲。” |
Sources
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