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江

jiāng

large river

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

工 sound component

工  Sound component

gōng

  

work

Evolution

江 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
江 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

江  

jiāng

large river; yangzi; surname; river; CL:條|条[tiáo],道[dào]

江  

Jiāng

surname Jiang

Most common words with 江
Freq.
Word
Meaning

江

river

江湖

rivers and lakes

江户

Edo (old name of Tokyo)

浙江

Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州

江苏

Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

鴻 鸿 茳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤroŋ

kaewng

jiāng

(Yangzi) river


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 4.9816% of movies

2088th most common character in movies

577th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+6C5F

Shuowen

“江，水。出蜀湔氐徼外崏山，入海。从水，工聲。”


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