péng

bury

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

朋 sound component

  Sound component

péng

  

friend

Evolution

堋 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
堋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
堋 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
堋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

péng

bury; target in archery

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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