chōng
grind in mortar
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
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-toŋ | syowng | chōng | hull grain, beat (v.) stick for beating (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5145th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+8202 |
Shuowen | “舂，擣粟也。从廾，持杵臨臼上。午，杵省也。古者雝父初作舂。” |
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