rǎng
soil
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 襄 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 壤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
soil | ||
Pyongyang, capital of North Korea | ||
opposite extremes | ||
to border on | ||
soil |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*naŋʔ | nyangX | rǎng | cultivated soil |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8901% of movies
2885th most common character in movies
2412th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+58E4 |
Shuowen | “壤，柔土也。从土，襄聲。” |
Sources
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