xiāo = xi + ao1
firmament / heaven
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How to pronounce 霄

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= xi initial

Xi is for Xi Shi (西施), one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China.

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+ ao1 final

In front of the aorta.

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霄 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
= yu + Ø3
rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
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= yu + Ø4
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet
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xiāo = xi + ao1
surname Xiao / Taiwan pr. [Xiao4]
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xiào = xi + ao4
similar / resembling / to resemble / to be like
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Characters with 霄 as component

霄 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 霄

Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom) / unimaginably far away

Sentences with 霄

ruò
rán
 
 
dìng
yào
shàng
líng
xiāo
bǎo
殿
diàn

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xiāo

firmament / heaven

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