Chinese Character Wiki
詳

xiáng

detailed

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

羊 sound component

羊  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

詳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
詳 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
詳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

详 (詳) 

xiáng

detailed, complete, thorough; detailed; comprehensive

Most common words with 詳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

详细

detailed

详情

details

详

detailed

安详

serene

不详

not in detail

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.[ɢ]aŋ

zjang

xiáng

scrutinize fully


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.0408% of movies

1857th most common character in movies

1439th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

详

Unicode

U+8A73

Shuowen

“詳，審議也。从言，羊聲。”


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