chún
lips
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 辰 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sə.dur | zywin | chún | lip |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.3087% of movies
1830th most common character in movies
1880th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+8123 |
Shuowen | “脣，口耑也。从肉，辰聲。，古文辰肉从頁。” |
Sources
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