Chinese Character Wiki

亨

hēng

smoothly

Evolution

亨 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
亨 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
亨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
亨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
亨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

亨  

hēng

smoothly, progressing, no trouble; prosperous; henry (unit of inductance)

Most common words with 亨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

亨利

Henry (name)

亨

prosperous

大亨

big shot

亨特

Hunter (name)

亨通

to go smoothly

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

哼 烹

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤraŋ

xaeng

hēng

penetrate

*[p.qʰ]ˤraŋ

phaeng

pēng

(loan for) to boil

*[qʰ]aŋʔ

xjangX

xiǎng

sacrificial offering


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.8076% of movies

1664th most common character in movies

2146th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4EA8

Shuowen

“亯，獻也。从高省。曰：象進孰物形。《孝經》曰：‘祭則鬼亯之。’享，篆文亯。”


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