zhōng
small cup or bowl
Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 中 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3998th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+76C5 |
Shuowen | “盅，器虛也。从皿，中聲。《老子》曰：‘道盅而用之。’” |
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