xiōng
breast
Phonosemantic compound. 勹 represents the meaning and 凶 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2174% of movies
3024th most common character in movies
2503rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5308 |
Shuowen | “匈,聲也。从勹,凶聲。,匈或从肉。” |
Sources
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