miǎn

flood

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

丏 sound component

  Sound component

miǎn

  

parapet

Evolution

沔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

miǎn

flood; overflowing; inundation; name of a river

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.nerʔ

mjienX

miǎn

richly flowing stream


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6433rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C94

Shuowen

“沔,水。出武都沮縣東狼谷,東南入江。或曰入夏水。从水,丏聲。”


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