Chinese Character Wiki
誠

chéng

sincere

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 成 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

成 sound component

成  Sound component

chéng

  

completed

Evolution

誠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誠 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
誠 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
誠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诚 (誠) 

chéng

sincere, honest; true, real; sincere; authentic; really; truly

Most common words with 誠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诚

sincere

诚实

honest

忠诚

devoted

真诚

true

坦诚

candid

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]eŋ

dzyeng

chéng

sincere


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.8940% of movies

1141st most common character in movies

1154th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

诚

Unicode

U+8AA0

Shuowen

“誠，信也。从言，成聲。”


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