zhǎo
hand, claw
爫 is a component form of 爪, which depicts a hand or claw pointing downwards.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+722B |
Shuowen | “爪,也。覆手曰爪,象形。” |
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