jiōng
a door bar placed outside a door
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤeŋ | kweng | jiōng | door bolt |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6457th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6243 |
Shuowen | “扃,外閉之關也。从戶,冋聲。” |
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