róng
high
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 嶸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
lofty | ||
towering | ||
eventful years | ||
promise of brilliant young person (idiom); showing extraordinary gifts |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷreŋ | hjwaeng | róng | high, distant |
*[ɢ]ʷˤreŋ | hweang | róng | 崢嶸 high, precipitous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4746th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5DB8 |
Shuowen | “嶸,崝嶸也。从山,榮聲。” |
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