Chinese Character Wiki
层

céng

floor (of a building)

Simplified form of 層. Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.

Components
户 meaning component

户  Meaning component

hù

  

door

云 simplified component

云  Simplified component

yún

  

clouds

Shorthand for the 曾 component in the traditional character 層.

Evolution

层 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
层 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
层 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

层 (層) 

céng

story, layer, floor, stratum; layer; stratum; laminated; floor (of a building); storey; classifier for layers; repeated; sheaf (math.)

Most common words with 层
Freq.
Word
Meaning

层

layer

高层

high level

层次

layer

基层

basic level

层面

aspect

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 30.9467% of movies

1120th most common character in movies

699th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

層

Unicode

U+5C42


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