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苯
běn

benzene

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 本 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

本
本 Sound component
běn root

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpɯːnʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang