zēng

a large square net

Components

Meaning component
wǎng net or eye

net

Sound component
céng already

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsɯːŋ
Unicodetzəng

說文解字

魚网也。从网曾聲。

Sources

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