chǒng
favorite
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 龙 represents the sound. Simplified form of 寵.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 宠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
house pet | ||
to love | ||
to dote on sb | ||
overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.) | ||
to spoil (a child etc) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.0386% of movies
1835th most common character in movies
2422nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5BA0 |
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