xióng
male of species
Phonosemantic compound. 隹 represents the meaning and 厷 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
xióng
male of species; hero; manly; male; staminate; grand; imposing; powerful; mighty; person or state having great power and influence
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷəŋ | hjuwng | xióng | male |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 26.5417% of movies
1151st most common character in movies
1054th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+96C4 |
Shuowen | “雄，鳥父也。从隹，厷聲。” |
Sources
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