zhēng
kind of gong used in ancient times by troops on the march
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 正 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6935th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9266 |
Shuowen | “鉦,鐃。似鈴,柄中,上下通。从金,正聲。” |
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