Chinese Character Wiki
怱

cōng

hastily

Original meaning: 

insightful

Variant of 悤. Depicts a line (匆) piercing a heart (心) (i.e. having an insightful understanding), conveying the meaning "insightful". now written as 聰. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
匆 iconic component

匆  Iconic component

cōng

  

hastily

Depicts a line piercing. Represents having an insightful understanding in one's thoughts.

心 iconic component

心  Iconic component

xīn

  

heart

In ancient China, it was thought that the heart was the center of thought and reasoning.

Evolution

怱 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
怱 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
怱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怱 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
怱 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
怱 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

怱  

cōng

hastily, in haste, hurriedly

匆 (怱) 

cōng

variant of 匆[cōng]

Most common words with 怱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

匆匆

hurriedly

匆忙

hasty

急匆匆

hurried

匆

hurried

行色匆匆

hurried

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

偬

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

葱 偬

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1257% of movies

2354th most common character in movies

1622nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

悤

Unicode

U+6031
Sources

季旭昇《說文新證》p.762

林志強《《文源》評注》p.36

張世超《金文形義通解》p.2443-2444



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