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恿

yǒng

instigate

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 甬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 惥.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

甬 sound component

甬  Sound component

yǒng, tǒng

  

path

Evolution

恿 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
恿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恿  

yǒng

instigate, incite; to alarm; to urge; to incite

恿 (惥) 

yǒng

old variant of 恿[yǒng]

Most common words with 恿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

怂恿

to instigate

恿

to urge

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3913th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+607F

Shuowen

“勇，气也。从力，甬聲。，勇或从戈、用。恿，古文勇从心。”


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