sòng
Song dynasty
Original meaning:
dwelling
Depicts a building (宀) made of wood (木). Based on the original meaning "dwelling". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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
Most common words with 宋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
surname Song | ||
James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨|亲民党 | ||
Song dynasty (960-1279) | ||
the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) | ||
Song Dynasty (960-1279) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤuŋ-s | sowngH | sòng | (place name) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2494% of movies
2587th most common character in movies
990th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5B8B |
Shuowen | “宋，居也。从宀，从木。” |
Sources
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