ráo
bountiful
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 饒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
rich | ||
to forgive | ||
to beg forgiveness | ||
talkative | ||
to spare sb's life |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]ew (< uvular?) | nyew | ráo | abundant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.2973% of movies
2167th most common character in movies
2266th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9952 |
Shuowen | “饒，飽也。从食，堯聲。” |
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