chōng
a sad
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 中 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰruŋ | trhjuwng | chōng | grieved, agitated |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3326th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5FE1 |
Shuowen | “忡,憂也。从心,中聲。《詩》曰:‘憂心忡忡。’” |
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