coral

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

胡 sound component

  Sound component

  

beard

Evolution

瑚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瑚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

coral; person of virtue

Most common words with 瑚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

珊瑚

coral

珊瑚礁

coral reef

coral

草珊瑚

Sarcandra glabra (botany)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.6728% of movies

3352nd most common character in movies

3140th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+745A

Shuowen

“瑚,珊瑚也。从玉,胡聲。”


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