cōng, chuāng
chimney
Simplified form of 囱. Derived from the top component of 悤. Depicts a line piercing an object. The meaning later shifted to "window" (now written 窗) and "chimney".
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2174% of movies
3232nd most common character in movies
3555th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+56EA |
Shuowen | “囱，在牆曰牖，在屋曰囱。象形。窗，或从穴，，古文。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.761
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