yǒng
leap
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 甬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 踴.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*loŋʔ | yowngX | yǒng | leap |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3884th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8E0A |
Shuowen | “踊，跳也。从足，甬聲。” |
Sources
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