敖
Meanings
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- 1.surname Ao
- 1.variant of 遨[áo]
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Wiktionary
- 1.Original form of 遨 (áo, “to ramble; to play about”).
- 2.to tease; to joke; to flirt with
- 3.to make an uproar
- 4.someone who has not assumed the throne, and thus has no posthumous name, due to dying early
- 5.a common aristocratic or bureacratic title
- 6.four-chi-high dog
- 7.Original form of 廒 (áo, “granary”).
- 8.An ancient place in the northwest of today Xingyang, Henan.
- 9.a surname
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Etymology
Originally 𫠤, a pictogram (象形) depicting a person 人 with a headdress similar to 屮 and then 丰 and 出 (but unrelated to these character). Later, the person was stylized to a shape similar to 夭 (a man running); 攴 was added perhaps to convey the concept of authority, making it a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声) and transforming it into 𢾍. The man under the headress then become stylized as 方 (or 万 in some modern scripts). See also 免, 冒, and 美. As an alternative, according to 季旭昇 Ji Xusheng, it represents a man walking and travelling in the countryside, symbolized by a sprout 屮 on top. See also the original form of 每. Shuowen Jiezi erroneously interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 出 (“leave”) + 放 (“release”) due to the later stylization.
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