漳 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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zhāng

name of a river in Henan

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 章 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

章 Sound component

zhāng

chapter, seal

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zhāng

name of a river in Henan

Zhāng

Zhang river in Fujian

Most common words with 漳

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	漳州	Zhangzhou prefecture level city in Fujian
	漳	Zhang river in Fujian
	漳州市	Zhangzhou prefecture level city in Fujian
	漳浦	Zhangpu county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian
	漳浦县	Zhangpu county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3813th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Unicode	U+6F33
Shuowen	“漳，濁漳出上黨長子鹿谷山，東入清漳；清漳出沾山大要谷北入河；南漳出南郡臨沮。从水，章聲。”

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