xiāo
melt, sell
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.1275% of movies
1219th most common character in movies
904th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+92B7 |
Shuowen | “銷,鑠金也。从金,肖聲。” |
Sources
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