Chinese Character Wiki

薔

qiáng

rose

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

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

嗇 sound component

嗇  Sound component

sè

  

stingy

Evolution

薔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蔷 (薔) 

qiáng

rose; wild rose

Most common words with 薔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蔷薇

Japanese rose (Rosa multiflora)

蔷

wild rose

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3941st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

蔷

Unicode

U+8594

Shuowen

“薔，薔虞，蓼。从艸，嗇聲。”


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