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彖

tuàn

a hog

Pictograph of a pig (豕) being pierced or shot by an arrow. Similar in origin to 彘.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts an arrow that is penetrating the pig.

豕 iconic component

豕  Iconic component

shǐ

  

pig

Evolution

彖 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
彖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
彖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

彖  

tuàn

a hog; a hedgehog; a porcupine; to foretell the future using the trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

喙

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

緣 缘 蠡 篆 椽 掾

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤo[r]-s

thwanH

tuàn

running pig


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6434th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5F56

Shuowen

“彖，豕走也。从彑从豕省。”


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