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莊

zhuāng

village, farmstead

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 壯 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

壯 sound component

壯  Sound component

zhuàng

  

big, strong

Evolution

莊 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
莊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
莊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

庄 (莊) 

zhuāng

village, hamlet; villa; surname; farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)

庄 (莊) 

Zhuāng

surname Zhuang

Most common words with 莊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

村庄

village

庄

farmstead

庄园

manor

山庄

villa

庄严

solemn

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]raŋ

tsrjang

zhuāng

dignified, grave


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.1233% of movies

1860th most common character in movies

1024th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

庄

Unicode

U+838A

Shuowen

“莊，上諱。，古文莊。”


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