héng

the top gem of the pendants

Components

Meaning component
wáng king

jade

Sound component
xíng, háng walk

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡraːŋ

說文解字

佩上玉也。所以節行止也。从玉行聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica