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蔥

cōng

scallions

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 悤 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

悤 sound component

悤  Sound component

cōng

  

agitated

Evolution

蔥 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
蔥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蔥 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蔥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

葱 (蔥) 

cōng

scallions, onions, leeks; scallion; green onion

Most common words with 蔥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

洋葱

bulb onion

葱

scallion

大葱

leek

葱花

chopped onion

青葱

scallion

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ʰˤoŋ

tshuwng

cōng

onion


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9885% of movies

2522nd most common character in movies

2907th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

葱

Unicode

U+8525

Shuowen

“蔥，菜也。从艸，囱聲。”


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