báo
hail
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 包 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[b]ˤruk | baewk | báo | hail |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4037th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+96F9 |
Shuowen | “雹，雨冰也。从雨，包聲。靁，古文雹。” |
Sources
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