wán
small round object
Derived from 夗. Pictograph of a dying animal lying down. The meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet" and "pill".
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤar | hwan | wán | pellet; ball |
*ɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar) | hwan | wán | 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.6635% of movies
2097th most common character in movies
2462nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Unicode | U+4E38 |
Shuowen | “丸，圜，傾側而轉者。从反仄。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.726
劉釗《古文字構形學》p.128
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