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洋

yáng

ocean

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

羊 sound component

羊  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

洋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
洋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
洋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

洋  

yáng

ocean, sea; foreign; western; ocean; vast; silver dollar or coin

Most common words with 洋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

海洋

ocean

洋

ocean

太平洋

Pacific Ocean

洋葱

bulb onion

大西洋

Atlantic Ocean

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɢ(r)aŋ

yang

yáng

'great expanse of water'


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 18.3405% of movies

1449th most common character in movies

803rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D0B

Shuowen

“洋，水。出齊臨朐高山，東北入鉅定。从水，羊聲。”


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