zhào

basket for catching fish

Components
罒 meaning component

  Meaning component

wǎng

  

Radical 122

net

卓 sound component

  Sound component

zhuōzhuó

  

profound

Evolution

罩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
罩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhào

basket for catching fish; cover; fish trap (basket); shade

Most common words with 罩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

cover

笼罩

to envelop

胸罩

bra

口罩

mask (surgical etc)

面罩

mask

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤrawk-s

traewH

zhào

covering basket


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.4459% of movies

1807th most common character in movies

1978th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7F69

Shuowen

“罩,捕魚器也。从网,卓聲。”


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