琯
guǎn
a jade tube used as an instrument
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Definitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+742F |
Shuowen | “管，如箎，六孔，十二月之音，物開地牙，故謂之管。从竹，官聲。琯，古者玉琯以玉。舜之時，西王母來獻其白琯。前零陵文學姓奚，於伶道舜祠下得笙玉琯。夫以玉作音，故神人以和，鳳皇來儀也。从玉，官聲。” |
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