Read Edit View history 硝 xiāo saltpeter Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound. Components 石 石 Meaning component shí stone 肖 肖 Sound component xiào look like Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangsew Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang