jiào

cry loudly

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkiːws

說文解字

高聲也。一曰大呼也。从㗊丩聲。《春秋公羊傳》曰:“魯昭公叫然而哭。”

Sources

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