quán
spring
Depicts water (水) coming out of a crack in a rock.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 泉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
coin (archaic) | ||
spa | ||
fountain | ||
mineral spring water | ||
Koizumi (name) |
Component uses
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-N-ɢʷar (MC I!) | dzjwen | quán | spring, source |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 7.6085% of movies
1992nd most common character in movies
1641st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6CC9 |
Shuowen | “泉,水原也。象水流出成川形。” |
Sources
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