zhǒng, zhòng
seed
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 重 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.toŋʔ | tsyowngX | zhǒng | seed |
*(mə-)toŋʔ-s | tsyowngH | zhòng | sow (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 96.6523% of movies
192nd most common character in movies
57th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7A2E |
Shuowen | “種,先穜後孰也。从禾,重聲。” |
Sources
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