Chinese Character Wiki
換

huàn

change

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 奐 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

奐 sound component

奐  Sound component

huàn

  

be numerous

Evolution

換 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
換 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
換 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

换 (換) 

huàn

change, exchange; substitute; to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)

Most common words with 換
Freq.
Word
Meaning

换

to exchange

交换

to exchange

转换

to change

更换

to replace (a worn-out tire etc)

变换

to transform

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤa[n]-s

hwanH

huàn

change


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 66.6186% of movies

640th most common character in movies

824th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

换

Unicode

U+63DB

Shuowen

“換，易也。从手，奐聲。”


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