quān, juān, juàn
circle, loop
Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 卷 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g](r)o[n]ʔ | gjwenX | juàn | enclosure for pigs |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 32.7567% of movies
1113th most common character in movies
1366th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5708 |
Shuowen | “圈,養畜之閑也。从囗,卷聲。” |
Sources
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