xīng
species of orangutan
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 星 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.6590% of movies
2174th most common character in movies
2016th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7329 |
Shuowen | “猩,猩猩,犬吠聲。从犬,星聲。” |
Sources
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