zēng
increase
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tˤəŋ | tsong | zēng | increase |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 23.9308% of movies
1435th most common character in movies
446th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+589E |
Shuowen | “增,益也。从土,曾聲。” |
Sources
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