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