chàng

sacrificial wine

Pictograph of a kind of vessel used for holding wine with the small dots in it representing the wine contained in the vessel.

Evolution

鬯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鬯 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鬯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chàng

sacrificial wine; unhindered; sacrificial spirit

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰraŋ-s

trhjangH

chàng

aromatic spirits


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5573rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+9B2F

Shuowen

“鬯,以秬釀鬱艸,芬芳攸服,以降神也。从凵,凵,器也;中象米;匕所以扱之。《易》曰:‘不喪匕鬯’。”


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