huàn
be numerous
Original meaning:
take from someone's house
Simplified form of 奐. Depicts two hands (廾) taking something from a person's (人) house (穴). Based on the original meaning "take from someone's house". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 奂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
(of houses, scenery etc) magnificent (idiom) | ||
surname Huan |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3774th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5942 |
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