yuàn
to turn over when asleep
Pictograph of a dying animal lying down.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ | 'jwonX | wǎn | turn over in bed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5917 |
Shuowen | “夗,轉卧也。从夕,从卪。卧有卪也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.555
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