倀

chāng

ghost of one devoured by tiger

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

長 sound component

  Sound component

zhǎngcháng

  

long

Evolution

倀 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
倀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
倀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

(倀) 

chāng

bewildered; rash, wildly; ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others

Most common words with 倀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

为虎作伥

to act as accomplice to the tiger

ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5589th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+5000

Shuowen

“倀,狂也。从人,長聲。一曰什也。”


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