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熬

áo, āo

cook down

Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 敖 represents the sound.

Components
灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

敖 sound component

敖  Sound component

áo, aó

  

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

熬  

áo

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

熬  

āo

to boil; to simmer

Most common words with 熬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

熬

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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