céng
floor (of a building)
Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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 | |
Unicode | U+5C64 |
Shuowen | “層,重屋也。从尸,曾聲。” |
Sources
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