kuāng
bamboo basket or chest
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-pʰaŋ | khjwang | kuāng | square basket |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.8650% of movies
3325th most common character in movies
3419th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7B50 |
Shuowen | “匡，飲器，筥也。从匚，聲。筐，匡或从竹。” |
Sources
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