Chinese Character Wiki

扃

jiōng

a door bar placed outside a door

Components
户 meaning component

户  Meaning component

hù

  

door

door

冋 sound component

冋  Sound component

jiōng

  

a desert

Evolution

扃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扃 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
扃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扃  

jiōng

a door bar placed outside a door; (literary) to shut or bolt a door; door

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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