guān
assistant in wine shop
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
guān
assistant in wine shop, groom; keeper of domestic animals; herdsman; (old) hired hand in certain trade
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤra[n]-s | kwaenH | guān | servant, groom |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4255th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+500C |
Shuowen | “倌,小臣也。从人,从官。” |
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