shěng
disease of the eyes
Phonosemantic compound. 生 represents the sound and 目 represents the meaning.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6682nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+771A |
Shuowen | “眚，目病生翳也。从目，生聲。” |
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