xuǎn
light of the sun
To bake 火 in the sun 亘; 亘 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰarʔ (dialect: *-r > *-j) | xjweX | huǐ | sunlight |
*qʷʰarʔ | xjwonX | xuǎn | to dry in the sun |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+70DC |
Shuowen | “爟，取火於日。官名。舉火曰爟。《周禮》曰：‘司爟掌行火之政令。’从火，雚聲。烜，或从亘。” |
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