cháng
intestines
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lraŋ | drjang | cháng | intestines |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.3132% of movies
1667th most common character in movies
1921st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8178 |
Shuowen | “腸，大小腸也。从肉，昜聲。” |
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