校花 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xiàohuā

school beauty

xiào school

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù tree

交 Sound component

jiāo to cross, to mix

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		kreːws
		ɡreːws
Unicode	gàu
	hàu

說文解字

《說文》：“校，木囚也。从木，交聲。”

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)

huā, hua flower

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 化 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

化 Sound component

huà change

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xwae	qʷʰˤra	flower (n.)

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart