yuán
name of a river in western Hunan that flows into Dongting lake
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 沅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Yuan river in Guizhou and Hunan | ||
river in Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖 | ||
Yuan River | ||
Yuanling county in Huaihua 懷化|怀化[Huáihuà], Hunan | ||
Yuanjiang county level city in Yiyang 益陽|益阳[Yìyáng], Hunan |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4212th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6C85 |
Shuowen | “沅,水。出牂牁故且蘭,東北入江。从水,元聲。” |
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