zhǒng
swell
Swollen 重 flesh ⺼; 重 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*toŋʔ | tsyowngX | zhǒng | swell, swollen; tumor |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.5467% of movies
1855th most common character in movies
1792nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+816B |
Shuowen | “腫，癰也。从肉，重聲。” |
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