樣 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yàng

shape

acorn

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 羕 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

木 hints at the original meaning of 樣, "acorn", which is no longer the most common meaning of 樣 in modern Mandarin.

羕 Sound component

yàng

eternal

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yàng

shape, form, pattern, style; manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type

Most common words with 樣

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9039% of movies

50th most common character in movies

88th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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