yuān
gulf
Simplified form of 淵. 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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 渊
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 |
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 | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6E0A |
Sources
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