niáng
mother
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 襄 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 48.7906% of movies
681st most common character in movies
881st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+5B43 |
Shuowen | “孃,煩擾也。一曰肥大也。从女,襄聲。” |
Sources
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