guàn
wash
Depicts hands (𦥑) being washed by water (水) with a container (皿) at the bottom for catching water.
Components
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
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4758th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+76E5 |
Shuowen | “盥，澡手也。从、水，臨皿。《春秋傳》曰：‘奉匜沃盥。’” |
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