chāo

boil vegetables for a very short time

Components

Meaning component
huǒ fire

fire

Sound component
zhuó, zhuō profound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtjewɢ

說文解字

明也。从火卓聲。《周書》曰:“焯見三有俊心。”

Sources

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