cháo, zhāo
ridicule
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 朝 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 嘲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to jeer at | ||
to mock | ||
to sneer at | ||
to tease | ||
to mock oneself |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.2468% of movies
1873rd most common character in movies
2325th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+5632 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“嘲，謔也。从口，朝聲。《漢書》通用啁。” |
Sources
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