sòng
accuse
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 訟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
lawsuit | ||
litigation | ||
common plea | ||
criminal procedure | ||
procedural law |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.[ɢ]oŋ-s | zjowngH | sòng | litigate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.9907% of movies
2153rd most common character in movies
1862nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A1F |
Shuowen | “訟，爭也。从言，公聲。曰謌訟。，古文訟。” |
Sources
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