háng

fly down or downward

Components
亢 sound component

  Sound component

kàng

  

high

頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

leaf

Evolution

頏 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
頏 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
頏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
頏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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háng

fly down or downward; fly down

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6703rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+980F

Shuowen

“亢,人頸也。从大省,象頸脈形。頏,亢或从頁。”


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