xiāng
box
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[s]aŋ | sjang | xiāng | box (of a carriage) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 39.3080% of movies
898th most common character in movies
1453rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7BB1 |
Shuowen | “箱，大車牝服也。从竹，相聲。” |
Sources
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