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創

chuàng, chuāng

begin, establish

Original meaning: 

wound, injury

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 倉 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "wound, injury". The meaning "begin, establish" is a phonetic loan.

Components
倉 sound component

倉  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

創 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
創 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
創 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
創 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

创 (創) 

chuàng

establish, create; knife cut; to begin; to initiate; to inaugurate; to start; to create

创 (創) 

chuāng

a wound; cut; injury; trauma

Most common words with 創
Freq.
Word
Meaning

创造

to create

创新

innovation

创

to begin

创意

creative

创作

to create

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]raŋ

tsrhjang

chuāng

wound (v.)

*[tsʰ]raŋ-s

tsrhjangH

chuàng

begin


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 38.1868% of movies

1028th most common character in movies

635th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

创

Unicode

U+5275

Shuowen

“刅，傷也。从刃，从一。創，或从刀，倉聲。”


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