Chinese Character Wiki

錚

zhēng

clanging sound

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 争 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

争 sound component

争  Sound component

zhēng

  

strife, quarrel

Evolution

錚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
錚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

铮 (錚) 

zhēng

clanging sound; small gong; clang of metals

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3154th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

铮

Unicode

U+931A

Shuowen

“錚，金聲也。从金，爭聲。”


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