漢 - Dong Chinese dictionary

hàn

Chinese people

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 𦰩 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

𦰩 Sound component

jiān

to sigh

漢 and 𦰩 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

hàn

the Chinese people, Chinese language; man

Hàn

Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

Most common words with 漢

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	汉	man
	武汉	Wuhan city on Changjiang, subprovincial city and capital of Hubei province
	汉堡	Hamburg (German city)
	汉城	Hanseong, former name of Seoul (capital of South Korea), replaced in 2005 with 首爾\|首尔[Shǒu'ěr]
	汉语	Chinese language