zhuāng
village, farmstead
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 壯 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]raŋ | tsrjang | zhuāng | dignified, grave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.1233% of movies
1860th most common character in movies
1024th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+838A |
Shuowen | “莊,上諱。,古文莊。” |
Sources
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