strong

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartngjɨt[ŋ]ətgreat, powerful
Zhengzhangŋɯd
hŋɯd

說文解字

勇壯也。从人气聲。《周書》曰:“㐹㐹勇夫。”

Sources

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