tòng
sadness
Moving 動 and sad 忄; 動 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤoŋʔ-s | duwngH | tòng | grieved |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4516th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+615F |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“慟，大哭也。从心，動聲。” |
Sources
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