ǎo

outer garments

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

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

夭 sound component

  Sound component

yāo

  

die young

Evolution

袄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
袄 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
袄 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ǎo

outer garments; coat, jacket; coat; jacket; short and lined coat or robe

Most common words with 袄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

coat

棉袄

cotton-padded jacket

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3480th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8884


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