róng
flourish, glory
Simplified form of 榮. Phonosemantic compound. 𤇾 represents the sound and 木 represents the meaning.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 荣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
honored (to have the privilege of ...) | ||
honor | ||
glory | ||
glorious | ||
prosperous |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[N-qʷ]reŋ | hjwaeng | róng | glory, honor |
*[N-qʷ]reŋ | hjwaeng | róng | 榮觀 imperial palace; walls and watchtowers |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 35.9603% of movies
1026th most common character in movies
993rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8363 |
Sources
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