áo

huge sea turtle

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

敖 sound component

  Sound component

áo

  

ramble, stroll, roam

Evolution

鳌 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鳌 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

áo

huge sea turtle; mythological sea turtle

() 

áo

variant of |[áo]

Most common words with 鳌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

独占鳌头

to be the champion

mythological sea turtle

博鳌镇

Bo'ao seaside resort, Hainan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3450th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CCC


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