xiāng

fragrant smell of grain

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

herb

鄉 sound component

  Sound component

xiāng

  

hometown

Evolution

薌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薌 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
薌 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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xiāng

fragrant smell of grain; aromatic; aromatic herb used for seasoning; variant of [xiāng]

Most common words with 薌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

fragrant

芗剧

variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan

芗城区

Xiangcheng district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市[Zhāng​zhōu​shì], Fujian

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰaŋ

xjang

xiāng

fragrance


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5156th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+858C

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“薌,穀氣也。从艸,鄉聲。”


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