狂
kuáng HSK5

insane, mad

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Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 往 represents the sound.

Components

犭
犭 Meaning component
quǎn dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

往
往 SoundRemnant component
wǎng, wàng go

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgjwang[k-ɢʷ]aŋ mad, reckless

說文解字

《說文》：“狂，狾犬也。从犬，聲。忹，古文从心。”

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)