zēng

arrow with attached silk cord

Evolution

矰 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
矰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
矰 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

zēng

arrow with attached silk cord; arrow with a streamer

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7812th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+77F0

Shuowen

“矰,隿矢也。从矢,曾聲。”


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