shào
continue
Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 召 represents the sound. Simplified form of 紹.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 绍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to introduce (sb to sb) | ||
Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau | ||
Shaoxing prefecture level city in Zhejiang | ||
to continue | ||
Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 27.5989% of movies
1297th most common character in movies
1234th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7ECD |
Sources
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