lào

cream

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
酉 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

各 sound component

  Sound component

  

each

Evolution

酪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
酪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lào

cream, cheese; koumiss; curdled milk or fruit juice; also pr. [luò]

Most common words with 酪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奶酪

cheese

乳酪

cheese

干酪

cheese

also pr. [luò]

酪氨酸

tyrosine (Tyr), an amino acid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.2606% of movies

1748th most common character in movies

3667th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+916A

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“酪,乳漿也。从酉,各聲。”


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