xiāo
sky
To look like 肖 rain 雨; 肖 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 霄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian | ||
heaven | ||
unimaginably far away | ||
Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian | ||
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。” |
Sources
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