nóng
pus
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 農 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.nˤuŋ | nowng | nóng | pus |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3295% of movies
3123rd most common character in movies
3376th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+81BF |
Shuowen | “,腫血也。从血,省聲。膿,俗。从肉,農聲。” |
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