rèn

conceive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

壬 sound component

  Sound component

rén

  

(thread spool),9th heavenly stem

Evolution

妊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
妊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rèn

conceive, be pregnant; pregnant; pregnancy

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rèn

variant of [rèn]

Most common words with 妊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

妊娠

pregnancy

pregnant

妊妇

expecting mother

怀妊

gestation

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3523rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+598A

Shuowen

“妊,孕也。从女,从壬,壬亦聲。”


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