héng HSK6

measure

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approved by Prismcool · Mar 22, 2024, 06:12 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Mar 22, 2024, 06:12 PM

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Depicts a person () with a horn () on their head, indicating an unbalanced single horn as opposed to a balanced pair of horns. represents the sound. The meaning later shifted to "to weigh" and "measure".

Components

Sound component
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Iconic component

Depicts a person.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthaeng[g]ˤraŋ beam of a steelyard

說文解字

《說文》:“衡,牛觸,橫大木其角。从角,从大,行聲。《詩》曰:‘設其楅衡。’,古文衡如此。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.366漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica