luán
lovely
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]onʔ | ljwenX | liàn | beautiful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6289th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5B4C |
Shuowen | “孌，慕也。从女，聲。” |
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