刑 - Dong Chinese dictionary

xíng

punishment

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound.

Components

井 Sound component

jǐng

well

Modern form looks like 开.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 井 than it was in ancient scripts.

刂 Meaning component

dāo

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

刑

xíng

punishment, penalty; law; punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment

刑

Xíng

surname Xing

Most common words with 刑

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	死刑	death penalty
	刑事	criminal
	刑	penalty
	刑警	criminal police
	有期徒刑	limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

型硎

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ɢ]ˤeŋ	heng	xíng	punish(ment)
*[ɢ]ˤeŋ	heng	xíng	model, form

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.7501% of movies

1299th most common character in movies

1087th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+5211
Shuowen	“，剄也。仌刀，幵聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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