huán

great domain

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

睘 sound component

  Sound component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

寰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
寰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huán

great domain, country, world; large domain; extensive region

Most common words with 寰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

large domain

惨绝人寰

extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality

寰宇

the whole earth

人寰

world

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3963rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+5BF0

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“寰,王者封畿內縣也。从宀,睘聲。”


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