àng
cup
Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 盎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
ounce (British imperial system) (loanword) | ||
bowl | ||
abundant | ||
full of life | ||
full of life |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.4668% of movies
2849th most common character in movies
3410th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+76CE |
Shuowen | “盎，盆也。从皿，央聲。，盎或从瓦。” |
Sources
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