zhàng
tent
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 長 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*traŋ-s | trjangH | zhàng | curtain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 21.3519% of movies
1377th most common character in movies
1603rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5E33 |
Shuowen | “帳，張也。从巾，長聲。” |
Sources
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