xiāng

side-room

Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

相 sound component

  Sound component

xiāngxiàng

  

mutual

Evolution

廂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
廂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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xiāng

side-room, wing; theatre box; box (in theater); side room; side

Most common words with 廂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

车厢

carriage

side

包厢

box (in a theater or concert hall)

一厢情愿

one's own wishful thinking

厢房

side room

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.0777% of movies

2351st most common character in movies

2467th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+5EC2

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“廂,廊也。从广,相聲。”


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