Chinese Character Wiki

恆

héng

constant

A constant 亙 heart 忄; 亙 also provides the pronunciation

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

亙 sound,meaning component

亙  Sound Meaning component

gèn

  

extend across, constant

Evolution

恆 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
恆 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
恆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恒 (恆) 

héng

constant, regular, persistent; permanent; constant; fixed; usual; ordinary; rule (old); one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷟)

恒 (恆) 

Héng

surname Heng

Most common words with 恆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

永恒

eternal

恒

permanent

恒星

(fixed) star

持之以恒

to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere

伯利恒

Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤəŋ

hong

héng

constant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.4392% of movies

2236th most common character in movies

1764th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

恒

Unicode

U+6046

Shuowen

“恆，常也。从心，从舟，在二之閒上下，心以舟施恆也。，古文恆从月。《詩》曰：‘如月之恆。’”


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