Definitions
easily provoked, hasty; fierce, cruel
Etymology
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趮 combines the radical 走 (zǒu, "to walk or run") with the phonetic component 喿 (zào), which originally depicted birds chirping loudly. Together, they suggest swift, hasty, or noisy movement. This character is an early or variant form of 躁 (zào), which shares the same pronunciation and connotations of impetuousness or restlessness, though 躁 typically uses the foot radical 足. The 喿 component evokes a sense of frantic, chaotic rushing. 趮 appears mainly as a historical variant in classical texts.
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