wǎn
winding
Original meaning:
building
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 夗 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "building", now written as 館. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 宛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to be just like | ||
Lithuania | ||
to be just like | ||
winding | ||
Lithuanian (person) |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ | 'jwonX | wǎn | curved; to bend |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0572% of movies
3104th most common character in movies
2528th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5B9B |
Shuowen | “宛，屈艸自覆也。从宀，夗聲。惌，宛或从心。徐灝注箋：“夗者，屈曲之義，宛从宀，蓋謂宮室窈然深曲，引申為凡圓曲之偁，又為屈折之偁。屈草自覆未詳其恉。” |
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