Chinese Character Wiki

縱

zòng

indulge in

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 從 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

從 sound component

從  Sound component

cóng

  

from

Evolution

縱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
縱 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
縱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纵 (縱) 

zòng

indulge in, give free reign to; warp (the vertical threads in weaving); vertical; longitudinal; north-south (lines of longitude); lengthwise; to release; to indulge; even if

Most common words with 縱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

操纵

to operate

纵

vertical

纵火

to set on fire

放纵

to indulge

纵容

to indulge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]oŋ-s

tsjowngH

zòng

let loose


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.3361% of movies

1750th most common character in movies

1236th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

纵

Unicode

U+7E31

Shuowen

“縱，緩也。一曰舍也。从糸，從聲。”


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