牼
kēng
ox shank
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kʰˤ<r>eŋ | heang | kēng | shank bone |
*kʰˤ<r>eŋ | kheang | kēng | shank bone |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+727C |
Shuowen | “牼,牛下骨也。从牛,巠聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘宋司馬牼字牛。’” |
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