jiǎo
cunning
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.5994% of movies
2385th most common character in movies
2670th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+72E1 |
Shuowen | “狡,少狗也。从犬,交聲。匈奴地有狡犬,巨口而黑身。” |
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