huàn

illusion

An inversion of , "to give"

Components
幺 meaning component

  Meaning component

meyāo

  

tiny

Evolution

幻 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
幻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
幻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huàn

illusion, fantasy, mirage; fantasy

Most common words with 幻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

幻想

delusion

fantasy

幻觉

illusion

梦幻

dream

科幻

science fiction

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 26.6699% of movies

1182nd most common character in movies

1417th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5E7B

Shuowen

“幻,相詐惑也。从反予。《周書》曰:‘無或譸張為幻。’”


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