Chinese Character Wiki
響

xiǎng

make sound

Phonosemantic compound. 音 represents the meaning and 鄉 represents the sound.

Components
鄉 sound component

鄉  Sound component

xiāng

  

hometown

音 meaning component

音  Meaning component

yīn

  

sound

Evolution

響 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
響 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
響 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
響 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
響 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

响 (響) 

xiǎng

make sound, make noise; sound; echo; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises

Most common words with 響
Freq.
Word
Meaning

影响

influence

响

echo

影响力

influence

音响

sound

响应

answer

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰaŋʔ

xjangX

xiǎng

echo


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 50.6647% of movies

896th most common character in movies

503rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

响

Unicode

U+97FF

Shuowen

“響，聲也。从音，鄉聲。”


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