饒 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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ráo

bountiful

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.

Components

飠 Meaning component

shí

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

堯 Sound component

yáo

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

饶 (饒)

ráo

bountiful, abundant, plentiful; rich; abundant; exuberant; to add for free; to throw in as bonus; to spare; to forgive; despite; although

饶 (饒)

Ráo

surname Rao

Most common words with 饒

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	饶	rich
	饶恕	to forgive
	求饶	to beg forgiveness
	饶舌	talkative
	饶命	to spare sb's life

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ŋ]ew (< uvular?)	nyew	ráo	abundant

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.2973% of movies

2167th most common character in movies

2266th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	20
Simplified	饶
Unicode	U+9952
Shuowen	“饒，飽也。从食，堯聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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