sǒng
urge on
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 從 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 聳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to excite | ||
to shrug one's shoulders | ||
erect | ||
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people | ||
to stand tall |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6819% of movies
3093rd most common character in movies
2163rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8073 |
Shuowen | “，生而聾曰聳。从耳，從省聲。” |
Sources
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