躁

zào
#2,446 most
frequent character
impatient, hot-tempered

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

躁 pairs 𧾷, leg or movement, with 喿 sào, which shares the rhyme. Movement points to the first meaning, rapidly. From rapid movement it grew to rash or impatient, then hot-tempered.

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Homophones

造zào
make, build, create, produce

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