chóng
esteem
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 宗 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]<r>uŋ | dzrjuwng | chóng | exalt, honor |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.7251% of movies
1927th most common character in movies
1482nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5D07 |
Shuowen | “崇,嵬高也。从山,宗聲。” |
Sources
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