重zhòng
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重
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Shuowen
重 (zhòng), the picture of a person (千) carrying a heavy sack (東) on his back, indicating a load that is hard to bear; it originally meant 'heavy' and later extended to 'weighty' and 'important'. In oracle bone script the character shows a figure with a sack, illustrating the original concept of heaviness.
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zhòng· HSK 1