Chinese Character Wiki
章

zhāng

chapter, seal

Original meaning: 

jade ornament

Possibly depicts using a blade (䇂) to engrave a block of jade. Based on the original meaning "jade ornament", now written as 璋. Later the meaning shifted to "seal" and "chapter".

Components
䇂 iconic component

䇂  Iconic component

qiān

  

sickle, curved blade

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a block of jade.

Evolution

章 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
章 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
章 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
章 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

章  

zhāng

composition; chapter, section; chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order

章  

Zhāng

surname Zhang

Most common words with 章
Freq.
Word
Meaning

文章

article

章

chapter

勋章

medal

徽章

badge

规章

rule

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

幛

Sound component in 13 characters (2 verified)

障 璋 彰 漳 樟 蟑 瘴 嶂 鄣 獐 幛 嫜 鱆

Unknown component in 2 characters (0 verified)

贛 赣

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*taŋ

tsyang

zhāng

brilliant; distinctive mark; to display


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 27.1824% of movies

1168th most common character in movies

539th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7AE0

Shuowen

“章，樂竟為一章。从音，从十。十，數之終也。”


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