miǎn
crown
Phonosemantic compound. 冃 represents the meaning and 免 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
miǎn
crown; ceremonial cap; crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations; imperial crown
Most common words with 冕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to defend the crown (in sports championship) | ||
to crown | ||
high-sounding | ||
imperial crown | ||
royal crown |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mr[o][r]ʔ | mjenX | miǎn | ceremonial cap |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.0503% of movies
2839th most common character in movies
3456th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5195 |
Shuowen | “冕,大夫以上冠也,邃延垂瑬紞纊。从冃,免聲。古者黃帝初作冕。絻,冕或从糸。” |
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