láo
prison
Original meaning:
pen; fence
Depicts an animal, such as a cow (牛), trapped around an animal's fence (宀).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 27.2305% of movies
1204th most common character in movies
1696th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+7262 |
Shuowen | “牢,閑,養牛馬圈也。从牛,冬省,取其四周帀也。” |
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