xiòng

to spy

Evolution

詗 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
詗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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xiòng

to spy; to give information; shrewd; (literary) to spy; to pry into

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8485th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A57

Shuowen

“詗,知處告言之。从言,冋聲。”


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