chuáng, zhuàng
carriage curtain
Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 童 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤroŋ | draewng | chuáng | a kind of flag |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.1097% of movies
2444th most common character in movies
2566th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+5E62 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“幢,旌旗之屬。从巾,童聲。” |
Sources
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