jiōng
a desert
A plot of land 口 surrounded by a border 冂; 冂 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+518B |
Shuowen | “冂,邑外謂之郊,郊外謂之野,野外謂之林,林外謂之冂,象遠界也。冋,古文冂。从囗,象國邑。坰,冋或从土。” |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

