zhào

(same as 照) to shine upon

Evolution

㷖 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
㷖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㷖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
㷖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
㷖 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

zhào

(same as ) to shine upon; to light or illumine; old variant of [zhào]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+3DD6

Shuowen

“照,明也。从火,昭聲。”


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