sǎng

the forehead

Components
桑 sound component

  Sound component

sāng

  

mulberry tree

頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

head

Evolution

顙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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sǎng

the forehead; to kowtow; forehead

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤaŋʔ

sangX

sǎng

forehead


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+9859

Shuowen

“顙,頟也。从頁,桑聲。”


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