Chinese Character Wiki
墙

qiáng

wall

Simplified form of 牆. Phonosemantic compound. 爿 represents the sound and 嗇 represents the meaning.

Components
土 simplified component

土  Simplified component

tǔ

  

earth

Shorthand for the phonetic 爿 component in the traditional character 牆.

啬 iconic component

啬  Iconic component

sè

  

stingy

Depicts a building for storing grain.

Evolution

墙 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
墙 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
墙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墙 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
墙 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
墙 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

墙 (牆) 

qiáng

wall; CL:面[miàn],堵[dǔ]

墙 (墻) 

qiáng

variant of 牆|墙[qiáng], wall

Most common words with 墙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

墙

wall

墙壁

wall

城墙

city wall

围墙

fence

防火墙

firewall

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 27.9193% of movies

1202nd most common character in movies

1212th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

牆

Unicode

U+5899


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