Read Edit View history 娼 chāng prostitute Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 昌 represents the sound. Pinyin Separate values with commas chāng × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 娼 Simp strokes 娼 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 娼 Simp strokes 娼 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 娼 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "animcjk", "medians": [ [ [ 268, 799 ], [ 319, 734 ], [ 220, 306 ], [ 403, 164 ], [ 422, 112 ] ], [ [ 378, 520 ], [ 417, 469 ], [ 345, 260 ], [ 262, 160 ], [ 126, 88 ] ], [ [ 35, 412 ], [ 95, 386 ], [ 376, 454 ] ], [ [ 478, 729 ], [ 525, 672 ], [ 572, 456 ] ], [ [ 540, 716 ], [ 769, 745 ], [ 804, 725 ], [ 821, 694 ], [ 751, 462 ] ], [ [ 567, 596 ], [ 720, 613 ] ], [ [ 588, 482 ], [ 728, 510 ] ], [ [ 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766 98 Z", "M 541 193 Q 548 192 557 193 Q 665 209 745 219 Q 770 222 761 236 Q 751 252 724 257 Q 700 261 537 222 C 508 215 511 195 541 193 Z", "M 555 77 Q 562 76 574 78 Q 637 90 766 98 C 796 100 814 105 792 125 Q 785 132 772 141 Q 754 151 722 143 Q 631 124 555 113 C 525 109 525 78 555 77 Z" ] } 11 strokes Historical Pronunciations No items. + Add historical pronunciation Sources No sources. 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