ráo

fuel

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
legendary ancient emperor-sage

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangŋjew

說文解字

薪也。从艸堯聲。

Sources

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

ráo, yáo fuel Simplified

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
yáo a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode