Chinese Character Wiki
庚

gēng

7th heavenly stem

Original meaning: 

gong

Depicts an instrument like a gong. Based on the original meaning "gong", now written as 鉦. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

庚 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
庚 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
庚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
庚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
庚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

庚  

gēng

7th heavenly stem; age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí​tiān​gān]; seventh in order; letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 255°; hepta

Most common words with 庚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

庚

age

贵庚

your age (honorific)

庚子

37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020

庚辰

seventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060

华罗庚

Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), Chinese number theorist

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (2 verified)

康 唐 赓 鶊 鹒

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

康

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤraŋ

kaeng

gēng

7th heavenly stem


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3072nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5E9A

Shuowen

“庚，位西方，象秋時萬物庚庚有實也。庚承己，象人。”


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