zèng
boiler for steaming rice
Phonosemantic compound. 瓦 represents the meaning and 曾 represents the sound. Originally written as 曾.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*S-təŋ-s | tsingH | zèng | boiler for steaming rice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4863rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+7511 |
Shuowen | “甑，甗也。从瓦，曾聲。，籀文甑，从。” |
Sources
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