zào

black

Evolution

皁 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

zào

black; police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤuʔ

dzawX

zào

acorn, black-dyeing fruit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+7681


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