sǎng

the forehead

Components

Sound component
sāng mulberry tree
Meaning component
(head), page

head

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsangX[s]ˤaŋʔforehead
Zhengzhangsŋaːŋʔ
Unicodesɑ̌ng

說文解字

頟也。从頁桑聲。

Sources

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

sǎng the forehead Simplified

Components

Sound component
sāng mulberry tree
Meaning component
page

head

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode