shào
whistle
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.6704% of movies
2335th most common character in movies
2383rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+54E8 |
Shuowen | “哨，不容也。从口，肖聲。” |
Sources
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