gěng
stem of flower
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 更 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤraŋʔ | kaengX | gěng | suffering |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3455% of movies
3276th most common character in movies
2919th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6897 |
Shuowen | “梗,山枌榆。有朿,莢可為蕪荑者。从木,更聲。” |
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