牆
qiáng HSK2

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Phonosemantic compound. 爿 represents the sound and 嗇 represents the meaning.

Components

爿
爿 Sound component
嗇
嗇 Iconic component

Depicts a building for storing grain.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangzaŋ
Unicodedzhiɑng

說文解字

《說文》：“牆，垣蔽也。从嗇，爿聲。，籀文从二禾；，籀文亦从二來。”

Sources

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