kǒng
fear
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 巩 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʰ(r)oŋʔ | khjowngX | kǒng | fear |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 57.2802% of movies
694th most common character in movies
891st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6050 |
Shuowen | “恐，懼也。从心，巩聲。，古文。” |
Sources
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