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號

hào, háo

call, mark

Phonosemantic compound. 虎 represents the meaning and 号 represents the sound.

Components
虎 meaning component

虎  Meaning component

hǔ

  

tiger

Alludes to the meaning "roar".

号 sound,meaning component

号  Sound Meaning component

hào, háo

  

call, mark

Evolution

號 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
號 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
號 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

号 (號) 

hào

mark, sign; symbol; number; ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people

号 (號) 

háo

roar; cry; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 號
Freq.
Word
Meaning

号

mark

号码

number

信号

signal

称号

name

口号

slogan

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

饕

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[C.g]ˤaw

haw

háo

call out

*Cə.[g]ˤaw-s

hawH

háo

command, call (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 74.8518% of movies

339th most common character in movies

487th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

号

Unicode

U+865F

Shuowen

“號，呼也。从号，从虎。”


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