Definitions
easily provoked, hasty; fierce, cruel
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The character 趮 combines the 走 (zǒu) 'walk/run' radical with the phonetic 喿 (zào), which depicts a chorus of chirping birds and conveys loud noise. It means moving swiftly or being hasty. 趮 is an early variant of the more common 躁 (zào), a character with the foot radical 足 that shares the same pronunciation and the connotations of restlessness and impetuousness. The noisy component 喿 evokes a frantic, hurried movement, as if someone is rushing about anxiously. Primarily, it appears as a historical variant in classical texts.
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