rán
burn
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 然 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
rán
burn; light fire, ignite; to burn; to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.na[n] | nyen | rán | burn |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 14.8006% of movies
1607th most common character in movies
1553rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+71C3 |
Shuowen | “然，燒也。从火，肰聲。，或从艸、難。” |
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