jiàngxiáng

to descend

Evolution

夅 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiàng

to descend; to come down from heaven. to send down; old variant of [jiàng]

 

xiáng

old variant of [xiáng]

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-kˤru[ŋ] (? < *-[u]m)

haewng

xiáng

submit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5905

Shuowen

“夅,服也。从夂、,相承不敢竝也。”


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