péng
bury
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤəŋ-s | pongH | bèng | put coffin in grave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5290th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+580B |
Shuowen | “堋,喪葬下土也。从土,朋聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘朝而堋。’《禮》謂之封,《周官》謂之窆。《虞書》曰:‘堋淫于家。’” |
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