mínmǐnwěn

Components
文 sound component

  Sound component

wén

  

writing

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

Evolution

忞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mín

to encourage oneself

 

mǐn

ancient variant of [mǐn]

 

wěn

disorderly; messy; chaotic

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5FDE

Shuowen

“忞,彊也。从心,文聲。《周書》曰:‘在受德忞。’讀若旻。”


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