qióng

round

Evolution

瞏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
瞏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞏 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

 

qióng

round; to gaze in terror; lonely

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷeŋ

gjwieng

qióng

scared, sad


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9747th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+778F

Shuowen

“瞏,目驚視也。从目,袁聲。《詩》曰:‘獨行瞏瞏。’”


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