qiáng

lady

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzaŋ
srɯɡ

說文解字

婦官也。从女,牆省聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

qiáng lady Simplified

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
stingy

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode