尨 is relatively rare in modern usage.
It belongs to the group of characters depicting animals through pictographic forms.

Related characters:


An ideographic pictograph.
The character originally depicted the shape of a shaggy dog covered with long hair. The strokes suggest a dog with thick or tangled fur.

Semantic development:
- a shaggy or long-haired dog;
- something rough or tangled in appearance (extended sense).
The meaning remained closely connected to the idea of thick or messy hair.

The character itself is rare in modern compounds and mainly appears in classical texts or dictionaries referring to a shaggy dog.

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Vocabulary

Rare and archaic Chinese character

thunderous sound, repeated crashing of thunder

adult male, fourth Heavenly Stem, nail

seven, number 7, seventh

elder, man of respect, husband, head of a family

up, top, first, best

below, under, to descend, to go down

not, no, non-

world, generation, lifetime

unit, individual, single

center, middle, inside

to grasp, to hold, to seize

to string together, to pierce through, a skewer, a series or chain of things

a small round object, pellet, ball, pill

red, cinnabar-red

king, lord, master, sovereign

thus, then, only, surprisingly

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尨

Etymology

Usage in Korean

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Words that derived from 尨

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