wēn
lukewarm
Simplified form of 溫. Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 𥁕 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤun | 'won | wēn | warm; gentle |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 36.2486% of movies
1015th most common character in movies
867th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6E29 |
Shuowen | “溫,水。出犍為涪,南入黔水。从水,聲。” |
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