yuān
gulf
Originally written as 𣶒, which depicted water inside of a deep pool. The left 氵 (water) component was added later.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 淵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
abyss | ||
origin | ||
erudite | ||
deep | ||
Li Yuan, personal name of first Tang emperor Gaozu 唐高祖[TángGāozǔ] (566-635), reigned 618-626 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]ʷˤi[ŋ] | 'wen | yuān | abyss |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7070% of movies
2847th most common character in movies
2192nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6DF5 |
Shuowen | “淵，回水也。从水，象形，左右岸也，中象水皃。，淵或省水。囦，古文从囗、水。” |
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