target

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
革 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

leather

巴 sound component

  Sound component

  

to wish

Evolution

靶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

target; splashboard on chariot; mark

Most common words with 靶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

target

靶子

target

打靶

target shooting

靶场

range

脱靶

to miss

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8352% of movies

2762nd most common character in movies

3237th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9776

Shuowen

“靶,轡革也。从革,巴聲。”


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