xiāo

sky

To look like  rain  also provides the pronunciation

Components
雨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rain

肖 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

xiàoxiāo

  

look like

Evolution

霄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
霄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiāo

sky; clouds, mist; night; firmament; heaven

Most common words with 霄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

云霄

Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāng​zhōu], Fujian

heaven

九霄云外

unimaginably far away

云霄县

Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāng​zhōu], Fujian

霄汉

the sky

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ew

sjew

xiāo

sleet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.7849% of movies

3295th most common character in movies

3129th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9704

Shuowen

“霄,雨為霄。从雨,肖聲。齊語也。”


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