佼
jiǎo

beautiful

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

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

交
交 Sound component
jiāo to cross, to mix

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkreːw
kreːwʔ
ɡreːwʔ

說文解字

交也。从人从交。

Sources

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