yàng
illness
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 恙
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
safe and sound (idiom) | ||
in good health | ||
sickness | ||
(literary) I trust you have been well since we last met | ||
Scrub typhus |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2906% of movies
3009th most common character in movies
3728th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6059 |
Shuowen | “恙，憂也。从心，羊聲。” |
Sources
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