xiāo

hollo stump of a tree

Components

Meaning component
tree

tree

Sound component
hào, hao, háo call, mark

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanghraw

說文解字

木根也。从木号聲。《春秋傳》曰:“歲在玄枵。”玄枵,虛也。

Sources

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