kuàng

cotton

Evolution

纊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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kuàng

cotton; silk; fine floss-silk or cotton

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷʰˤaŋ-s

khwangH

kuàng

fine floss silk; quilted


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6831st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E8A

Shuowen

“纊,絮也。从糸,廣聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘皆如挾纊。’絖,纊或从光。”


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