zhōng
heart
A person in a robe 衣 with his heart 中 marked; 中 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 衷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
heartfelt | ||
to be fond of | ||
original intention or aspiration | ||
heartfelt | ||
aloof |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.9220% of movies
2206th most common character in movies
2157th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8877 |
Shuowen | “衷，裏褻衣。从衣，中聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘皆衷其衵服。’” |
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