jiǒng
bright window
Originally a pictograph of a window. Nowadays sometimes used as a sad-face emoticon.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-mraŋʔ (dialect: *k.mr- > *kʷr-) | kjwaengX | jiǒng | bright window |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+56E7 |
Shuowen | “囧,窗牖麗廔闓明。象形。讀若獷。賈侍中說讀與明同。” |
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