lóng
deaf
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 龙 represents the sound. Simplified form of 聾.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 聋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
deaf | ||
deaf person | ||
deaf | ||
deaf and dumb | ||
ear-splitting (idiom); deafening |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8374% of movies
2446th most common character in movies
2873rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+804B |
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