qiǎng

swaddling clothes

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

强 sound component

  Sound component

qiángjiàngqiǎng

  

strong

Evolution

襁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
襁 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
襁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiǎng

swaddling clothes; cloth for carrying baby on back

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qiǎng

string of copper coins; variant of [qiǎng]

Most common words with 襁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

襁褓

infancy

variant of 襁[qiǎng]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5023rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+8941

Shuowen

“襁,負兒衣。从衣,強聲。”


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