创
創chuāng
#634 most
frequent character
(bound form) a wound, to wound
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
创 pairs 刂, a knife, with 仓 cāng for the sound. Its first sense was being wounded by a knife, which gave the reading chuāng and the noun 'wound'. Read chuàng, the same shape was borrowed for its sound to mean starting something, and from there to create.
Drawn as: knife wound
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