yǒng
swim
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 永 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 泳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
swimming | ||
swimming pool | ||
swimming | ||
swimming pond | ||
swimsuit |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷraŋ(ʔ)-s | hjwaengH | yǒng | go in water, wade |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 16.4504% of movies
1405th most common character in movies
2607th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CF3 |
Shuowen | “泳，潛行水中也。从水，永聲。” |
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