zhōng
loyalty
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 中 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*truŋ | trjuwng | zhōng | loyal |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 21.9606% of movies
1396th most common character in movies
1322nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5FE0 |
Shuowen | “忠,敬也。从心,中聲。” |
Sources
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