Chinese Character Wiki

獒

áo

mastiff

Components
敖 sound component

敖  Sound component

áo, aó

  

ramble, stroll, roam

犬 meaning component

犬  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

dog

Evolution

獒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
獒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
獒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
獒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

獒  

áo

mastiff, large fierce dog; mastiff

Most common words with 獒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

獒

mastiff

藏獒

Tibetan mastiff

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7352

Shuowen

“獒，犬如人心可使者。从犬，敖聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘公嗾夫獒。’”


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