藻

zǎo

Meanings

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zǎo

1.aquatic grasses
2.elegant

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Wiktionary

1.algae
2.other aquatic plants
3.literary embellishment
4.splendid, magnificent
5.a surname

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːwʔ): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 澡 (OC *ʔslaːwʔ). Originally 薻.

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Stroke order

Components

藻卄澡

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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