lóng
deaf
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 聾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
deaf | ||
deaf person | ||
deaf | ||
deaf and dumb | ||
ear-splitting (idiom); deafening |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.rˤoŋ | luwng | lóng | deaf |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8374% of movies
2446th most common character in movies
2873rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+807E |
Shuowen | “聾，無聞也。从耳，龍聲。” |
Sources
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