qiáng

rose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

嗇 sound component

  Sound component

  

stingy

Evolution

薔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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qiáng

rose; wild rose

Most common words with 薔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蔷薇

Japanese rose (Rosa multiflora)

wild rose

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3941st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8594

Shuowen

“薔,薔虞,蓼。从艸,嗇聲。”


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