羋

contributes the sense of a sheep's bleating cry · Kangxi radical

contributes the sense of a sheep's bleating cry, and today functions almost entirely as a surname

羋 is the graph 羊 'sheep' with an extra stroke or mark added across the top, the added mark pointing to the noise coming out of the animal rather than to any part of its body. You can still see the sheep in the modern shape: the horns spreading at the top, the vertical spine down the middle, the ribs crossing it. The simplified form 芈 keeps the same skeleton, with the horns flattened into the 艹-like top. Whether the extra mark was ever meant as a picture of sound or is simply a way of marking this graph off from plain 羊 is not certain.

羋 at a glance

Meaning

contributes the sense of a sheep's bleating cry

Strokes

8

Characters

1

Characters with 羋

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