zhàng
block, barricade, hinder
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 章 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 19.1735% of movies
1477th most common character in movies
1237th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+969C |
Shuowen | “障,隔也。从,章聲。” |
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