wēng
old man
Phonosemantic compound. 羽 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 翁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
rich person | ||
father | ||
millionaire | ||
master (of the house) | ||
old man |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤoŋ | 'uwng | wēng | old man (Han?) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.4072% of movies
2306th most common character in movies
2112th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7FC1 |
Shuowen | “翁，頸毛也。从羽，公聲。” |
Sources
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