ǎo

outer garments

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

奥 sound component

  Sound component

ào

  

mysterious

Evolution

襖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
襖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ǎo

outer garments; coat, jacket; coat; jacket; short and lined coat or robe

Most common words with 襖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

coat

棉袄

cotton-padded jacket

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3480th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8956

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“襖,裘屬。从衣,奧聲。”


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