xiōng
vicious, fierce
Pictograph of a trap in the ground.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰ(r)oŋ | xjowng | xiōng | unlucky |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 29.2648% of movies
830th most common character in movies
1378th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+51F6 |
Shuowen | “凶,惡也。象地穿交陷其中也。” |
Sources
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