tíng
a sudden peal of thunder
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 廷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 霆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to be furious | ||
Tse Ting-Fung or Nicholas Tse (1980-), Cantopop star | ||
sound of thunder | ||
clap of thunder |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2571st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+9706 |
Shuowen | “霆，雷餘聲也鈴鈴，所以挺出萬物。从雨，廷聲。” |
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