烙 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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lào

brand

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components

火 Meaning component

huǒ

fire

各 Sound component

gè

each

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

lào

brand, burn; branding iron; to brand; to iron; to bake (in a pan)

Most common words with 烙

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4576% of movies

3196th most common character in movies

3440th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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