hòng
boisterous
Phonosemantic compound. 鬥 represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鬨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hubbub | ||
to heckle | ||
to artificially inflate | ||
to deceive | ||
looting |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤoŋ-s | huwngH | hòng | quarrel, fight |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.9656% of movies
2460th most common character in movies
2513th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+9B28 |
Shuowen | “鬨,鬭也。从鬥,共聲。《孟子》曰:‘鄒與魯鬨。’” |
Sources
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