赵
zhàoZhào

surname

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

趙 surname Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.

Components

走
走 Meaning component
zǒu walk
肖
肖 Sound component
xiào look like

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 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
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrjewX[d]rewʔ(surname)
Zhengzhangl'ewʔ
Unicodedjiɛ̀u

說文解字

趨趙也。从走肖聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)