jiāng, jiàng
thick fluid, broth, starch
Phonosemantic compound. 水 represents the meaning and 將 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]aŋ | tsjang | jiāng | drink (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.2310% of movies
2151st most common character in movies
2626th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6F3F |
Shuowen | “，酢也。从水，將省聲。，古文省。” |
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