hòng

boisterous

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鬥 meaning component

  Meaning component

dòu

  

fight

共 sound component

  Sound component

gòng

  

together with

Evolution

鬨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hòng

boisterous; clamor, noise

() 

hòng

tumult; uproar; commotion; disturbance

Most common words with 鬨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hubbub

起哄

to heckle

哄抬

to artificially inflate

哄骗

to deceive

哄抢

looting

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤoŋ-s

huwngH

hòng

quarrel, fight


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9656% of movies

2460th most common character in movies

2513th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9B28

Shuowen

“鬨,鬭也。从鬥,共聲。《孟子》曰:‘鄒與魯鬨。’”


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