炒勺
chǎo​sháo

cooking utensil

炒 chǎo fry

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
少
少 Sound component
shǎo, shao, shào few

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsrhaewX[tsʰ](ˤ)r[e]wʔ to stir-fry

Sources

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

勺 sháo, shuò, zhuó spoon

Pictograph of a ladle with food in it.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 13 verified)

的约钓豹灼酌芍尥約趵妁釣玓

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

钓杓釣

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyakm-tewk ladle (n.)
tsyaktewk ladle (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“勺，挹取也。象形。中有實，與包同意。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫古今文字集成
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)