zhāng
jade ornament
Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 章 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 璋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武[Hóngwǔ] | ||
ancient stone ornament |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*taŋ | tsyang | zhāng | (jade) insignium |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3267th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+748B |
Shuowen | “璋，剡上為圭，半圭為璋。从玉，章聲。《禮》六幣：圭以馬，璋以皮，璧以帛，琮以錦，琥以繡，璜以黼。” |
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