sào
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the chirping of many birds in a tree (archaic)

Examples

Tā měitiān zài gōngyuán zuò zǎocāo.
He does morning exercises in the park every day.

Tips

history
('a treeful of chirping birds') is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in (to drill / handle), (to bathe), (dry), (noisy), and (restless).
memory
Three mouths over a tree : a whole flock of birds twittering in one tree — that is .

Components

radical
tree
The 'tree' below is where the birds gather; it is the indexing radical for .
semantic
pǐn
many mouths; chirping
Three 'mouth' squares stacked together stand for many birds calling at once, the core meaning of .

Stroke Order

sào