kuáng
insane, mad
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 往 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k-ɢʷ]aŋ | gjwang | kuáng | mad, reckless |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 60.4998% of movies
691st most common character in movies
1147th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+72C2 |
Shuowen | “狂,狾犬也。从犬,聲。忹,古文从心。” |
Sources
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