zhuàng
form, shape
Phonosemantic compound. 犬 represents the meaning and 爿 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 狀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
state | ||
condition | ||
symptom (of an illness) | ||
suit | ||
current situation |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]raŋ-s | dzrjangH | zhuàng | form, appearance |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 47.6374% of movies
890th most common character in movies
624th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+72C0 |
Shuowen | “狀，犬形也。从犬，爿聲。” |
Sources
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