nóng

pus

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 .

農 sound component

  Sound component

nóng

  

agriculture, farming

Evolution

膿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
膿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
膿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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nóng

pus

Most common words with 膿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pus

脓包

pustule

脓肿

abscess

化脓

to fester

化脓性

septic

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.nˤuŋ

nowng

nóng

pus


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3295% of movies

3123rd most common character in movies

3376th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+81BF

Shuowen

“,腫血也。从血,省聲。膿,俗。从肉,農聲。”


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