yōng

wall

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

庸 sound component

  Sound component

yōng

  

usual

Evolution

墉 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
墉 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
墉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
墉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yōng

wall; fortified wall; small wall; city wall

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5754th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5889

Shuowen

“墉,城垣也。从土,庸聲。,古文墉。”


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