cháng

intestines

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

昜 sound component

  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

肠 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
肠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
肠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
肠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cháng

intestines; emotions; sausage

() 

cháng

old variant of |[cháng]

Most common words with 肠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

intestines

香肠

sausage

肠道

gut

肠子

intestines

肠胃

digestive system

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 15.3132% of movies

1667th most common character in movies

1921st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+80A0


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