chāo

Components

Meaning component
xin, xīn heart

heart

Sound component
zhào summon

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰew
tʰjew

說文解字

悲也。从心召聲。

Sources

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