Chinese Character Wiki
型

xíng

pattern, mold

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 刑 represents the sound.

Components
刑 sound component

刑  Sound component

xíng

  

punishment

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

Evolution

型 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
型 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
型 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

型  

xíng

pattern, model, type; law; mold; type; style; model

Most common words with 型
Freq.
Word
Meaning

型

mold

大型

large

类型

type

造型

to model

发型

hairstyle

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 50.0721% of movies

787th most common character in movies

556th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+578B

Shuowen

“型，鑄器之法也。从土，刑聲。”


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