hén

scar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

艮 sound component

  Sound component

gěngèn

  

blunt

Evolution

痕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hén

scar; mark; trace; traces

Most common words with 痕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

痕迹

vestige

scar

伤痕

scar

疤痕

scar

裂痕

crack

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.2215% of movies

1414th most common character in movies

1938th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+75D5

Shuowen

“痕,胝瘢也。从疒,艮聲。”


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