hán

correspondence

Evolution

圅 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
圅 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
圅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
圅 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

hán

correspondence; a case; a box

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hán

variant of [hán]

Most common words with 圅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

邀请函

invitation letter

case

函数

function (math.)

信函

letter

函授

to teach by correspondence

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-m-kˤ[ə]m

hom

hán

contain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5148% of movies

2846th most common character in movies

1950th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5705

Shuowen

“圅,舌也。象形,舌體。从,亦聲。肣,俗圅从肉、今。”


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