chéng
a raised path between fields
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m.ləŋ (~ *mə.ləŋ) | zying | chéng | raised path between fields |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6584th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+584D |
Shuowen | “塍,稻中畦也。从土,朕聲。” |
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