Chinese Character Wiki

薨

hōng

death of prince

Components
艹 unknown component

艹  Unknown component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

罒 sound component

罒  Sound component

wǎng

  

Radical 122

冖 unknown component

冖  Unknown component

mì

  

cover

死 meaning component

死  Meaning component

sǐ

  

die

death

Evolution

薨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

薨  

hōng

death of prince; swarming; death of a prince

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤəŋ

xwong

hōng

to die (of king or prince)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5775th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+85A8

Shuowen

“薨，公矦也。从死，瞢省聲。”


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