chǒng

favorite

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

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

龙 sound component

  Sound component

lóng

  

dragon

Evolution

宠 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
宠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
宠 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
宠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
宠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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chǒng

favorite, concubine; favor; to love; to pamper; to spoil; to favor

Most common words with 宠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

宠物

house pet

to love

宠爱

to dote on sb

受宠若惊

overwhelmed by favor from superior (humble expr.)

宠坏

to spoil (a child etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.0386% of movies

1835th most common character in movies

2422nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+5BA0


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