Chinese Character Wiki

沌

dùn

chaotic

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

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

屯 sound component

屯  Sound component

tún, zhūn

  

village

Evolution

沌 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
沌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沌  

dùn

chaotic, confused; turbid, murky; confused; turbid

Most common words with 沌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

混沌

primal chaos

沌

confused

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3309th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C8C


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