quǎn
dog
Pictograph of a dog.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Unknown component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷʰˤ[e][n]ʔ | khwenX | quǎn | dog |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.4254% of movies
1908th most common character in movies
2649th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+72AC |
Shuowen | “犬,狗之有縣蹏者也。象形。孔子曰:‘視犬之字如畫狗也。’” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.750
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