chāo HSK4

copy, grab

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

Sound component
shǎo, shao, shào few

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsm̥ʰreːw
sm̥ʰreːws

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang