xiāo

common artemisia

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
肃 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

pay respects

艹 sound component

  Sound component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

Evolution

萧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
萧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xiāo

common artemisia; sighing of wind; mournful; dejected; miserable; desolate; dreary; Chinese mugwort

() 

Xiāo

surname Xiao

Most common words with 萧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

miserable

萧条

bleak

萧山

Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou city 杭州市[Háng​zhōu​shì], Zhejiang

萧瑟

to rustle

萧邦

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6178% of movies

2998th most common character in movies

1898th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8427


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