chéng
city
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 成 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]eŋ | dzyeng | chéng | city wall |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 55.7745% of movies
624th most common character in movies
413th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+57CE |
Shuowen | “城，以盛民也。从土，从成，成亦聲。，籀文城从。” |
Sources
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