kēng

ox shank

Evolution

牼 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
牼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

𰠲 () 

kēng

ox shank, person's name

 

kēng

shank bone of ox

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-kʰˤ<r>eŋ

heang

kēng

shank bone

*kʰˤ<r>eŋ

kheang

kēng

shank bone


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+727C

Shuowen

“牼,牛下骨也。从牛,巠聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘宋司馬牼字牛。’”


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