hào
consume
Phonosemantic compound. 耒 represents the meaning and 毛 represents the sound.
Evolution

Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
hào
consume, use up; waste, squander; to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.4986% of movies
2067th most common character in movies
1730th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8017 |
Sources
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