lóng
throat
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.6406% of movies
2247th most common character in movies
3027th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+56A8 |
Shuowen | “嚨，喉也。从口，龍聲。” |
Sources
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