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旱

hàn

drought

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

干 sound component

干  Sound component

gān, gàn

  

interfere

Evolution

旱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旱  

hàn

drought; dry; dry land

Most common words with 旱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

干旱

drought

旱

drought

抗旱

drought-resistant

旱冰

roller skating

旱灾

drought

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

稈

Sound component in 7 characters (1 verified)

趕 桿 悍 捍 焊 銲 稈

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤa[r]ʔ

hanX

hàn

dry, drought


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2975% of movies

3214th most common character in movies

2523rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+65F1

Shuowen

“旱，不雨也。从日，干聲。”


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