wǎng
net
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 罔 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*maŋʔ (or *C.maŋʔ ?) | mjangX | wǎng | net |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 38.8275% of movies
897th most common character in movies
605th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DB2 |
Shuowen | “网，庖犧所結繩以漁。从冂，下象网交文。，网或从亡；，网或从糸；，古文网；，籀文网。” |
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