jiào
pit
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 告 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤruk-s | kaewH | jiào | cave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8901% of movies
2964th most common character in movies
3317th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7A96 |
Shuowen | “窖，地藏也。从穴，告聲。” |
Sources
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