zhōng
end
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 冬 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tuŋ | tsyuwng | zhōng | end |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 71.4240% of movies
598th most common character in movies
558th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D42 |
Shuowen | “終,絿絲也。从糸,冬聲。,古文終。” |
Sources
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