chuàngchuāng

begin, establish

Original meaning: 

wound, injury

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of . Based on the original meaning "wound, injury". The meaning "begin, establish" is a phonetic loan.

Components
仓 sound component

  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

Evolution

创 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
创 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
创 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
创 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
创 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chuàng

establish, create; knife cut; to begin; to initiate; to inaugurate; to start; to create

() 

chuāng

a wound; cut; injury; trauma

() 

chuàng

variant of |[chuàng]

Most common words with 创
Freq.
Word
Meaning

创造

to create

创新

innovation

to begin

创意

creative

创作

to create

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 38.1868% of movies

1028th most common character in movies

635th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+521B


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