hào, háo
call, mark
Phonosemantic compound. 虎 represents the meaning and 号 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.g]ˤaw | haw | háo | call out |
*Cə.[g]ˤaw-s | hawH | háo | command, call (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 74.8518% of movies
339th most common character in movies
487th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+865F |
Shuowen | “號,呼也。从号,从虎。” |
Sources
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