Chinese Character Wiki
形

xíng

form, shape

Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound.

Components
井 sound component

井  Sound component

jǐng

  

well

彡 meaning component

彡  Meaning component

shān

  

hair

Three lines depicting a shape

Evolution

形 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
形 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
形 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
形 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

形  

xíng

form, shape, appearance; to appear; to look; form; shape

Most common words with 形
Freq.
Word
Meaning

形成

to form

形象

image

形式

form

形

form

形势

circumstances

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤeŋ

heng

xíng

form, shape


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 52.3466% of movies

828th most common character in movies

269th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5F62

Shuowen

“形，象形也。从彡，幵聲。”


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