汶 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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wèn

a river in Shandong province

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 文 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

文 Sound component

wén

writing

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

汶

wèn

a river in Shandong province

汶

Wèn

Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川); classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国

Most common words with 汶

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	汶	Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川)
	东帝汶	East Timor (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste)
	汶川	Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州\|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[AbàZàngzúQiāngzúzìzhìzhōu], northwest Sichuan
	汶川县	Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州\|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[AbàZàngzúQiāngzúzìzhìzhōu], northwest Sichuan
	汶上	Wenshang County in Jining 濟寧\|济宁[Jǐníng], Shandong

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*mˤə[n]	mwon	mén	dirty

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3719th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+6C76
Shuowen	“汶，水。出琅邪朱虛東泰山，東入濰。从水，文聲。桑欽說，汶水出泰山萊蕪，西南入泲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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