hàng

a ferry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

亢 sound component

  Sound component

kàng

  

high

Evolution

沆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hàng

a ferry; fog; flowing

Most common words with 沆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

fog

沆瀣一气

to act in collusion (idiom); in cahoots with

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5873rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C86

Shuowen

“沆,莽沆,大水也。从水,亢聲。一曰大澤皃。”


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