zhāng
clear
Phonosemantic compound. 彡 represents the meaning and 章 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 彰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to honor | ||
clear | ||
to manifest | ||
to complement one another well | ||
trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse. |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4737% of movies
3250th most common character in movies
2953rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5F70 |
Shuowen | “彰，文彰也。从彡，从章，章亦聲。” |
Sources
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