chěng
indulge oneself
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 呈 represents the sound.
Evolution
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Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
chěng
indulge oneself; brag, show off; to show off; to flaunt; to carry out or succeed in a scheme; to indulge; to give free rein to
Most common words with 逞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to prevail | ||
to show off | ||
to show off | ||
to show off one's ability | ||
desperado |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l̥]reŋʔ | trhjengX | chěng | to run after; gratify one’s desire |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.0457% of movies
2566th most common character in movies
3175th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+901E |
Shuowen | “逞，通也。从辵，呈聲。楚謂疾行為逞。《春秋傳》曰：‘何所不逞欲。’” |
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