yuán
pull, draw, lead on
Pictograph of two hands pulling a rope.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷa[n] | hjwon | yuán | there, then, thereupon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4896th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7230 |
Shuowen | “爰,引也。从,从于。籀文以為車轅字。” |
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