chéng

a raised path between fields

Components
月 sound component

  Sound component

yuè

  

moon

龹 unknown component

  Unknown component

juǎn

  

to roll rice into ball

土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

Evolution

塍 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
塍 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
塍 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
塍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
塍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chéng

a raised path between fields, a dike; raised path between fields

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chéng

variant of [chéng]

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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