qiāng
kill
Phonosemantic compound. 戈 represents the meaning and 爿 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4825th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6215 |
Shuowen | “戕,槍也。他國臣來弒君曰戕。从戈,爿聲。” |
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