鳌 — Chinese character
鳌
áo
huge sea turtle
- Pinyin
- áo
- Radical
- 195 ⿂ (Fish)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 敖 鱼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fish; meaning component 鱼; sound component 敖
- Traditional
- 鰲
Common words with 鳌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 独占鳌头 (獨占鰲頭) | dú zhàn áo tóu | (idiom) to come first in triennial palace examinations (refers to the carved stone turtle head in front of the imperial palace, next to which the most successfu |
| 鳌抃 (鰲抃) | áo biàn | (literary) elated and excited; overjoyed |
| 鳌背负山 (鰲背負山) | áo bèi fù shān | debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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