xiāo

raw silk fabric

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsreːw
sew
Unicodesiɛu

說文解字

生絲也。从糸肖聲。

Sources

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

xiāo, shāo raw silk fabric Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
xiào look like

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode