xiāo
sound of beating wind and rain
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 蕭 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 瀟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
free and easy | ||
other name of the Xiangjiang river 湘江[Xiāngjiāng] in Hunan province | ||
(of water) deep and clear |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3455% of movies
3333rd most common character in movies
3216th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+701F |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“瀟,水名。从水,蕭聲。” |
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