zǎo
flea
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tsˤuʔ | tsawX | zǎo | flea |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5217% of movies
3153rd most common character in movies
4054th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+86A4 |
Shuowen | “,齧人跳蟲。从,聲。,古爪字。蚤,或从虫。” |
Sources
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