wáng
death
Original meaning:
tip of a blade
Depicts the tip of a knife blade (刀). Similar in origin to 方. Based on the original meaning "tip of a blade", now written as 芒. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*maŋ | mjang | wáng | flee; disappear; die |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 40.8297% of movies
889th most common character in movies
957th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Unicode | U+4EA1 |
Shuowen | “亡,逃也。从入,从。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.871
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