xiáng
detailed
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.[ɢ]aŋ | zjang | xiáng | scrutinize fully |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.0408% of movies
1857th most common character in movies
1439th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A73 |
Shuowen | “詳,審議也。从言,羊聲。” |
Sources
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