冂 jiōng large room Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Pictograph of a large room. Original form of 堂. Character Evolution Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Component uses Iconic (3) 内尚內 Sound (1 of 2 verified) 尚冋 Meaning (0 of 2 verified) 冋繭 說文解字 《說文》：“冂，邑外謂之郊，郊外謂之野，野外謂之林，林外謂之冂，象遠界也。冋，古文冂。从囗，象國邑。坰，冋或从土。” Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
