zǎo, qiāo, sāo
to reel silk from cocoons
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-tsˤawʔ | tsawX | zǎo | bleach; wash |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7772nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E70 |
Shuowen | “繰,帛如紺色,或曰深繒。从糸,喿聲。讀若喿。” |
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