恒
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permanent; constant; fixed; usual; ordinary; rule (old); one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷟)
Formation & memory
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How 恒 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A constant 亘 heart 忄; 亘 also provides the pronunciation
Components 忄 亘
How to remember it
permanent · Heisig RSH #1798
state of mind + sunrise, sunset
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 恒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恒生中资企业指数 | Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index (HSCCI) | |
| 恒生指数 | Hang Seng Index (Hong Kong stock market index) | |
| 恒河沙数 | countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom) | |
| 恒生银行 | Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong | |
| 恒山区 | Hengshan, a district of Jixi City 雞西市|鸡西市[Ji1 xi1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 恒压二极管 | Zener diode | |
| 恒加速度 | constant acceleration | |
| 恒星年 | the sidereal year (astronomy); the year defined in terms of the fixed stars | |
| 恒春半岛 | Hengchun Peninsula in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], the southernmost point o… | |
| 伯利恒 | Bethlehem | |
| 能量守恒 | conservation of energy (physics) | |
| 恒星系 | stellar system; galaxy | |
| 持之以恒 | to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere | |
| 恒温器 | thermostat | |
| 恒星际 | interstellar; between the fixed stars | |
| 恒等式 | identity (math.) | |
| 恒大 | China Evergrande Group, or simply Evergrande, Chinese property developer founded in 1996 (… | |
| 恒山 | Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]; Hengsha… | |
| 恒山 | see 恆山區|恒山区[Heng2 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 恒心 | perseverance |