Chinese Character Wiki

曩

nǎng

in ancient times

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

sun

襄 sound component

襄  Sound component

xiāng

  

aid

Evolution

曩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
曩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
曩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

曩  

nǎng

in ancient times, of old, former; in former times

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤaŋʔ

nangX

nǎng

in past times


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5888th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+66E9

Shuowen

“曩，曏也。从日，襄聲。”


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