奥
àoyù HSK7

mysterious

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approved by Prismcool · May 24, 2025, 11:05 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on May 24, 2025, 11:05 PM

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Original meaning: to store

Simplified form of 奧. Depicts two hands (廾) hiding rice (米) in a corner or a container. Based on the original meaning "to store". The meaning later shifted to "obscure", "profound", and "mysterious".

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component

Depicts a hidden corner or a container.

米
米 Iconic component

Depicts grains of rice.

廾
廾 Iconic component

Depicts two hands.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 廾 than it was in ancient scripts.

說文解字

宛也。室之西南隅。从宀𢍏聲。

Sources

Character origin
鄔可晶《釋「奧」》Wiktionary (JA)
Readings & variants
Unicode
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)