chāojiǎocháo

destroy

Components

Sound component
cháo nest
Meaning component
lì, li power

strength

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰraːw
zraːw
ʔslawʔ

說文解字

勞也。《春秋傳》曰:“安用勦民?”从力巢聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica