Chinese Character Wiki

冋

jiōng

a desert

A plot of land 口 surrounded by a border 冂; 冂 also provides the pronunciation

Components
冂 sound,meaning component

冂  Sound Meaning component

jiōng

  

large room

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

冋 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
冋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
冋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

冋  

jiōng

a desert, a border; archaic variant of 坰[jiōng]

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

迥

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

炯 迥 扃 苘

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+518B

Shuowen

“冂，邑外謂之郊，郊外謂之野，野外謂之林，林外謂之冂，象遠界也。冋，古文冂。从囗，象國邑。坰，冋或从土。”


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