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層

céng

floor (of a building)

Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.

Components
户 meaning component

户  Meaning component

hù

  

door

曾 sound component

曾  Sound component

céng, zēng

  

already

Evolution

層 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
層 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 層
Freq.
Word
Meaning

层

layer

高层

high level

层次

layer

基层

basic level

层面

aspect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-s-tˤəŋ

dzong

céng

in two storeys, double

*m-s-tˤəŋ

dzong

céng

additional floor, field


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 30.9467% of movies

1120th most common character in movies

699th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

层

Unicode

U+5C64

Shuowen

“層，重屋也。从尸，曾聲。”


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