qiāng
chest cavity
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 空 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
qiāng
chest cavity; hollow in body; cavity of body; barrel (e.g. engine cylinder); compartment; tune; accent of speech
Most common words with 腔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
tune | ||
sissy | ||
oral cavity | ||
abdominal cavity | ||
thoracic cavity |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.0364% of movies
1944th most common character in movies
1914th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8154 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“腔，內空也。从肉、从空，空亦聲。” |
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