yuán
member
Simplified form of 員. Depicts the round opening (口) of a cooking pot (鼎). Based on the original meaning "round", now written as 圓. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 82.9249% of movies
265th most common character in movies
200th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5458 |
Sources
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