shào
verb #91,576

Meanings

  1. 1 (of rain) to blow in slantwise
  2. 2 to splash water on; (dialect) liquid pig feed

Examples

Yǔ wǎng chuānghu lǐ shào, kuài lái guān shàng.
The rain is blowing in through the window; come close it.

Tips

history
is an uncommon character mostly limited to describing wind-driven rain slanting in through a door or window. It also has a dialect noun sense, 潲水, the slop fed to pigs. Built on the water radical with phonetic .
memory
Water radical plus : water coming in at a slight, slanting angle.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical (left-side form of ) ties to rain and water and is its indexing radical.
phonetic
shāo
slightly; a bit
The element supplies the sound; the tone has shifted from the modern reading of the phonetic.

Stroke Order

shào