luán
twins
Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s.r]on-s | srjwenH | luán | twins |
*[s.r]on-s | srwaenH | luán | twins |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4292nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5B7F |
Shuowen | “孿,一乳兩子也。从子,聲。” |
Sources
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