huáng
reed of woodwind instrument
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 黄 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 簧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
spring | ||
metallic reed | ||
an oboe or bassoon | ||
double reed wind instrument (such as oboe or bassoon) | ||
fig. to have a glib tongue |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8100% of movies
2965th most common character in movies
3370th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+7C27 |
Shuowen | “簧，笙中簧也。从竹，黃聲。” |
Sources
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