chàng
sacrificial wine
Pictograph of a kind of vessel used for holding wine with the small dots in it representing the wine contained in the vessel.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰraŋ-s | trhjangH | chàng | aromatic spirits |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5573rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9B2F |
Shuowen | “鬯，以秬釀鬱艸，芬芳攸服，以降神也。从凵，凵，器也；中象米；匕所以扱之。《易》曰：‘不喪匕鬯’。” |
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