戎 - Dong Chinese dictionary

róng

arms

Depicts a weapon (戈) and a shield (盾). Both used here to convey the meaning "arms".

Components

戈 Iconic component

gē

spear

盾 Iconic component

dùn

shield

Depicts a shield.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 盾 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

戎

róng

arms, armaments; military affair; generic term for weapons (old); army (matters); military affairs

戎

Róng

surname Rong

Most common words with 戎

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	戎	army (matters)
	兵戎相见	to meet on the battlefield (idiom)
	戎装	martial attire
	戎马	military horse
	西戎	Xionites (Central Asian nomads)

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

絨绒狨

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*nuŋ	nyuwng	róng	foreigners in the west
*nuŋ	nyuwng	róng	weapon

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3205th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+620E
Shuowen	“戎，兵也。从戈，从甲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

林志強《《文源》評注》p.487

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