yūn, yùn
halo in sky, dizzy
Depicts thin clouds surrounding the sun (日). The thin clouds were later replaced by the phonetic component 軍. The meaning later shifted to "dizzy" and "faint".
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 暈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dizzy | ||
dizzy | ||
to faint | ||
vertigo | ||
confused and disoriented |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.6128% of movies
1615th most common character in movies
2215th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6688 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“暈，日月气也。从日，軍聲。” |
Sources
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