Chinese Character Wiki

芎

qiōng, xiōng

a kind of herb

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

herb

弓 sound component

弓  Sound component

gōng

  

bow

Evolution

芎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

芎  

qiōng

a kind of herb

芎  

xiōng

see 川芎[chuān​xiōng]; Taiwan pr. [qiōng]

Most common words with 芎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

川芎

chuanxiong rhizome

芎

chuanxiong rhizome

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5116th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+828E

Shuowen

“，藭，香草也。从艸，宮聲。芎，司馬相如說：或从弓。”


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