yāng
leather strap over horse's neck
Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鞅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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discontented | ||
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qínguó], whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝|秦朝[Qíncháo] | ||
Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3412th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+9785 |
Shuowen | “鞅,頸靼也。从革,央聲。” |
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