zēng
hate
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 憎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to detest | ||
to detest | ||
to loathe | ||
disgusting | ||
to have well-defined likes and dislikes |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤəŋ | tsong | zēng | hate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.2310% of movies
2360th most common character in movies
2617th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+618E |
Shuowen | “憎，惡也。从心，曾聲。” |
Sources
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