shèng, chéng
abundant
Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 成 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 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 |
*[d]eŋ | dzyeng | chéng | put in (a receptacle) |
*[d]eŋ-s | dzyengH | shèng | full, abundant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 23.0178% of movies
1323rd most common character in movies
1142nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+76DB |
Shuowen | “盛,黍稷在器中以祀者也。从皿,成聲。” |
Sources
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