áo

mastiff

Components

Sound component
áo, aó, ào ramble, stroll, roam
Meaning component
quǎn dog

dog

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋaːw

說文解字

犬如人心可使者。从犬敖聲。《春秋傳》曰:“公嗾夫獒。”

Sources

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