jiàng
any jam-like or paste-like food
Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 將 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]aŋ-s | tsjangH | jiàng | sauce |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.0477% of movies
1661st most common character in movies
3100th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+91AC |
Shuowen | “,盬也。从肉,从酉。酒以和也。爿聲。,古文。,籀文。” |
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