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講

jiǎng

explain

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

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

冓 sound component

冓  Sound component

gòu

  

a secluded place

Evolution

講 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
講 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
講 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

讲 (講) 

jiǎng

explain; discuss; talk; to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasise; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture

Most common words with 講
Freq.
Word
Meaning

讲

to speak

讲话

a speech

演讲

lecture

来讲

as to

讲述

to talk about

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤroŋʔ

kaewngX

jiǎng

explain; discuss


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 62.8864% of movies

582nd most common character in movies

555th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

讲

Unicode

U+8B1B

Shuowen

“講，和解也。从言，冓聲。”


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