guān
official
Depicts an official person (師) working in a governmental institution (宀).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤa[n] | kwan | guān | official (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 55.9987% of movies
343rd most common character in movies
432nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5B98 |
Shuowen | “官,吏事君也。从宀,从。猶眾也,此與師同意。” |
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