luán
tie together
Phonosemantic compound. Two threads (糸 + 糸) represent the meaning and 言 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
luán
(ancient form) chaos; distraction; confusion, confused, continuous; uninterrupted; to tie together, to manage
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.rˤo[n] | lwan | luán | harness bells |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+470C |
Shuowen | “,亂也。一曰治也,一曰不絕也。从言絲,,古文。” |
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