shéng
rope
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 黽 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə-m.rəŋ | zying | shéng | string, cord |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.9585% of movies
1623rd most common character in movies
1983rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E69 |
Shuowen | “繩,索也。从糸,蠅省聲。” |
Sources
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