zǎo
splendid
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 澡 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 藻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
seaweed | ||
elegant | ||
algae | ||
cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) | ||
rhetoric |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤawʔ | tsawX | zǎo | kind of water plant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2654% of movies
3117th most common character in movies
2652nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+85FB |
Shuowen | “薻，水艸也。从艸，从水，巢聲。《詩》曰：‘于以采薻。’藻，薻或从澡。” |
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