qiǎng

hydroxide

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
巠 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīng

  

warp (textile)

羊 sound component

  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

羥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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qiǎng

hydroxyl group; hydroxyl (radical)

Most common words with 羥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hydroxyl (radical)

羟基

hydroxyl group -OH

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5059th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+7FA5

Shuowen

“羥,羊名。从羊,巠聲。”


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