zēng, zèng
silk fabrics
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]əŋ | dzing | zēng | silk |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5719th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E52 |
Shuowen | “繒,帛也。从糸,曾聲。,籀文繒,从宰省。揚雄以為漢律祠宗廟丹書告。” |
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