chēng

deep red

Evolution

赬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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chēng

deep red

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[t.kʰ]reŋ

trhjeng

chēng

red


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8358th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8D6C

Shuowen

“,赤色也。从赤,巠聲。《詩》曰:‘魴魚尾’。赬,或从貞。,或从丁。”


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