yàng

shape

Original meaning: 

acorn

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

羕 sound component

  Sound component

yàng

  

eternal

Evolution

樣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
樣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yàng

shape, form, pattern, style; manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type

Most common words with 樣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

这样

so

一样

same

那样

that kind

怎么样

how?

怎样

how

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9039% of movies

50th most common character in movies

88th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6A23

Shuowen

“樣,栩實。从木,羕聲。”


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