cōng, chuāng
chimney
Original meaning:
window
Pictograph of a window with crossbars. Originally the component above 心 in 悤, representing a hole being pierced in the heart.
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.761-762
董蓮池 《說文解字考正》 p.404
The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, Outlier Linguistics
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