zāng
booty
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 臧 represents the sound.
Evolution
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 贓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
booty | ||
booty | ||
to frame sb (by planting sth on them) | ||
booty | ||
to dispose of stolen goods |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤaŋ | tsang | zāng | stolen goods |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2997% of movies
2663rd most common character in movies
3296th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8D13 |
Sources
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