qiáng, jiàng, qiǎng
strong
Phonosemantic component. 弓 represents the meaning and 畺 represents the sound. Originally written as 彊.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-kaŋ | gjang | qiáng | strong |
*m-kaŋʔ | gjangX | qiǎng | make an effort |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 73.8267% of movies
436th most common character in movies
292nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5F3A |
Shuowen | “強,蚚也。从虫,弘聲。,籀文強,从从彊。” |
Sources
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