xiàng
neck
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤroŋʔ | haewngX | xiàng | neck |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 39.0998% of movies
934th most common character in movies
571st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9805 |
Shuowen | “項,頭後也。从頁,工聲。” |
Sources
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