zhǎ
wink
Two eyes, one open 目 and one shut 乏
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə-[ts]ˤr[a]p (< *mə-S.pˤrap ?) | tsreap | zhǎ | blink, wink |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.4850% of movies
2442nd most common character in movies
2371st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7728 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“眨，動目也。从目，乏聲。” |
Sources
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