quǎn
a drain between fields
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʷˤ[i]nʔ | kwenX | juǎn | small watering channels in fields |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6342nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+754E |
Shuowen | “,水小流也。《周禮》:‘匠人為溝洫,耜廣五寸,二耜為耦,一耦之伐,廣尺深尺謂之。’倍謂之遂,倍遂曰溝,倍溝曰洫,倍洫曰巜。甽,古文从田,从川;畎,篆文从田,犬聲。六畎為一畂。” |
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