láng
wolf
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 狼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
wolf | ||
in a difficult situation | ||
lecher | ||
Sirius, a double star in constellation Canis Major 大犬座 | ||
in a mess |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤaŋ | lang | láng | wolf |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.9974% of movies
1583rd most common character in movies
1708th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+72FC |
Shuowen | “狼，似犬，銳頭，白頰，高前，廣後。从犬，良聲。” |
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