yàng
eternal
Phonosemantic compound. 永 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ](r)aŋʔ-s | yangH | yàng | long |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
8963rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7F95 |
Shuowen | “羕，水長也。从永，羊聲。《詩》曰：‘江之羕矣。’” |
Sources
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