jiāng
boundary
A bow 弓 and arrow 土 used to defend a border 畺; 畺 also provides the pronunciation
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kaŋ | kjang | jiāng | boundary |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2036th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+7586 |
Shuowen | “畺，界也。从畕、三，其界畫也。疆，畺或从彊、土。” |
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