zào
dry
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 喿 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 燥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dull | ||
dry and dull | ||
dry | ||
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much | ||
desiccant |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.sˤawʔ-s | sawH | sào | dry |
*C.sˤawʔ | sawX | zào | dry |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.6521% of movies
2690th most common character in movies
2613th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+71E5 |
Shuowen | “燥，乾也。从火，喿聲。” |
Sources
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