囧
jiǒng

bright window

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Originally a pictograph of a window. Nowadays sometimes used as a sad-face emoticon.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjwaengXk-mraŋʔ (dialect: *k.mr- > *kʷr-)bright window

說文解字

《說文》：“囧，窗牖麗廔闓明。象形。讀若獷。賈侍中說讀與明同。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)