gàngzhuàng

stupid

Components
贛 sound component

  Sound component

gàn

  

Jiangxi province

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

mind

Evolution

戇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
戇 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
戇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhuàng

stupid, simple, simple-minded; simple; honest

() 

gàng

stupid (Wu dialect)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5706th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

28

Simplified

Unicode

U+6207

Shuowen

“戇,愚也。从心,贛聲。”


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