áoāo

cook down

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
灬 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāohuǒ

  

fire

is a component form of .

敖 sound component

  Sound component

áo

  

ramble, stroll, roam

Evolution

熬 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
熬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
熬 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
熬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

áo

cook down, to boil; endure; to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure

 

āo

to boil; to simmer

Most common words with 熬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to decoct

熬夜

to stay up late or all night

煎熬

to suffer

难熬

hard to bear

苦熬

to endure (years of suffering)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤaw

ngaw

áo

fry, roast (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.8944% of movies

1932nd most common character in movies

2705th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+71AC

Shuowen

“熬,乾煎也。从火,敖聲。,熬或从麥。”


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