kuàng
situation
Original meaning:
cold water
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 兄 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m̥]aŋ-s | xjwangH | kuàng | compare with, be equal to |
*[m̥]aŋ-s | xjwangH | kuàng | how much the more |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 72.9457% of movies
506th most common character in movies
419th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6CC1 |
Shuowen | “況,寒水也。从水,兄聲。” |
Sources
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