擾
rǎo

disturb

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 憂 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

憂
憂 Sound component
yōu sad

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangnjiwʔ
Unicodenjiɛ̌u

說文解字

《說文》：“，煩也。从手，夒聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

扰 rǎo disturb Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 憂 represents the sound. Simplified form of 擾.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

尤
尤 Simplified component
yóu especially

Shorthand for the phonetic 憂 component in the traditional character 擾.

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode