qiào

criticize

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

肖 sound component

  Sound component

xiàoxiāo

  

look like

Evolution

誚 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
誚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誚 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
誚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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qiào

criticize, scold, blame, ridicule; ridicule; to blame

Most common words with 誚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

ridicule

讥诮

to deride

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4613th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A9A

Shuowen

“譙,嬈譊也。从言,焦聲。讀若嚼。誚,古文譙从肖。《周書》曰:‘亦未敢誚公。’”


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