枉
wǎng HSK7

useless

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 王 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
王
王 Sound component
wáng king

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjwangXqʷaŋʔcrooked; depraved
Zhengzhangqʷaŋʔ
Unicodeqiuɑ̌ng

說文解字

衺曲也。从木㞷聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)