gēng
soup
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 羹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
soup | ||
spoon | ||
to be refused entrance (idiom) | ||
leftovers from a meal | ||
leftovers from a meal |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤraŋ | kaeng | gēng | soup |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6498% of movies
3228th most common character in movies
3907th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+7FB9 |
Shuowen | “，五味盉羹也。从，从羔。《詩》曰：‘亦有和。’，或省。，或从美省。羹，小篆从羔从美。” |
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