membrane

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

莫 sound component

  Sound component

  

do not

Evolution

膜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

membrane; to kneel and worship; film

Most common words with 膜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

film

视网膜

retina

角膜

cornea

脑膜炎

meningitis

薄膜

membrane

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 6.6795% of movies

2208th most common character in movies

1945th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+819C

Shuowen

“膜,肉間胲膜也。从肉,莫聲。”


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