chōng

foolish

Evolution

憃 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
憃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

chōng

foolish, stupid, dull, silly; foolish; stupid; dull; silly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.toŋ

syowng

chōng

stupid

*[q]ʰˤ<r>oŋ

trhaewng

chōng

stupid


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6183

Shuowen

“憃,愚也。从心,舂聲。”


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