Chinese Character Wiki
囧

jiǒng

bright window

Originally a pictograph of a window. Nowadays sometimes used as a sad-face emoticon.

Evolution

囧 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
囧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

囧  

jiǒng

(archaic) light, bright (variant of 冏[jiǒng]); (since c. 2005) (slang) emoticon signifying embarrassment, shock, helplessness etc

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

明

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

明

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k-mraŋʔ (dialect: *k.mr- > *kʷr-)

kjwaengX

jiǒng

bright window


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+56E7

Shuowen

“囧，窗牖麗廔闓明。象形。讀若獷。賈侍中說讀與明同。”


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