jiōng

a door bar placed outside a door

Components

Meaning component
hù, hu door

door

Sound component
jiōng, jiǒng a desert

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwengkʷˤeŋdoor bolt
Zhengzhangkʷeːŋ
Unicodegueng

說文解字

外閉之關也。从戶冋聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica