xiàn
constitution
Depicts a spearhead (害) poking an eye (目). 心 was added later to represent the meaning.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 憲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
constitution (of a country) | ||
charter | ||
military police | ||
statute | ||
unconstitutional |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰar (~ *qʰar-s) | xjonH | xiàn | law; model; rule |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.8603% of movies
2329th most common character in movies
1484th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+61B2 |
Shuowen | “憲，敏也。从心，从目，害省聲。” |
Sources
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