yuán
low wall
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 亘 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 垣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
wall | ||
crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom) | ||
city wall | ||
Changyuan county in Xinxiang 新鄉|新乡[Xīnxiāng], Henan | ||
wall |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷar | hjwon | yuán | wall |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2948th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+57A3 |
Shuowen | “垣,牆也。从土,亘聲。,籀文垣从。” |
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