yǒng
long
Pictograph of a long river with a tributary.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷraŋʔ | hjwaengX | yǒng | long (time) |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 71.2158% of movies
526th most common character in movies
842nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+6C38 |
Shuowen | “永,長也,象水巠理之長。《詩》曰:‘江之永矣’。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.808
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