shēn
pregnant
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 辰 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tər | syin | shēn | pregnant |
*tər-s | tsyinH | shēn | pregnant |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3590th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5A20 |
Shuowen | “娠，女妊身動也。从女，辰聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘后緡方娠。’一曰：‘宮婢女隸謂之娠。’” |
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