yuán
aid
To lead 爰 by hand 扌; 爰 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷa[n] | hjwon | yuán | pull up |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 18.2765% of movies
1436th most common character in movies
1197th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+63F4 |
Shuowen | “援,引也。从手,爰聲。” |
Sources
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