cōngchuāng

chimney

Original meaning: 

window

Pictograph of a window with crossbars.

Evolution

囪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
囪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
囪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
囪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cōng

chimney, funnel; chimney

() 

chuāng

variant of [chuāng]

Most common words with 囪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

烟囱

chimney

chimney

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2174% of movies

3232nd most common character in movies

3555th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

Unicode

U+56EA

Shuowen

“囱,在牆曰牖,在屋曰囱。象形。窗,或从穴,,古文。”


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