guān
coffin
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 官 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤa[n] | kwan | guān | inner coffin |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.5971% of movies
2252nd most common character in movies
2686th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+68FA |
Shuowen | “棺，關也，所以掩尸。从木，官聲。” |
Sources
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