táo
pottery
Depicts a person bent over (勹) making a clay pot (缶). 勹 also represents the sound. Original form of 陶.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l]ˤu | daw | táo | kiln; pottery |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+530B |
Shuowen | “匋,瓦器也。从缶,包省聲。古者昆吾作匋。” |
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