Chinese Character Wiki
凶

xiōng

vicious, fierce

Pictograph of a trap in the ground.

Evolution

凶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

凶  

xiōng

culprit; murder; bad, sad; vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famine; variant of 兇|凶[xiōng]

凶 (兇) 

xiōng

terrible; fearful

Most common words with 凶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

凶手

murderer

凶

vicious

凶器

lethal weapon

凶残

savage

凶猛

fierce

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

酗

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

兇 匈 汹 垴

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

兇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)oŋ

xjowng

xiōng

unlucky


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 29.2648% of movies

830th most common character in movies

1378th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+51F6

Shuowen

“凶，惡也。象地穿交陷其中也。”


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