liàn
to long for, love
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.
Evolution
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 戀
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
homosexuality | ||
(romantic) love | ||
to love | ||
to lose one's love | ||
lover |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]on-s | ljwenH | liàn | to long for |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 36.9694% of movies
851st most common character in movies
1464th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6200 |
Sources
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