sòng
see off
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 灷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
sòng
see off, send off; dispatch, give; to deliver; to carry; to give (as a present); to present (with); to see off; to send
Most common words with 送
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to deliver | ||
to send | ||
to transmit | ||
to present as a gift | ||
to convey |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤoŋ-s | suwngH | sòng | escort (v.), send |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 80.8906% of movies
398th most common character in movies
656th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+9001 |
Shuowen | “送，遣也。从辵，省。，籀文不省。” |
Sources
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