juàn
take interest in
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 眷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to care for | ||
to miss | ||
to care about | ||
family member | ||
one's wife and children |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ro[n]-s | kjwenH | juàn | look on with affection |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.0022% of movies
3097th most common character in movies
2967th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7737 |
Shuowen | “眷,顧也。从目,聲。《詩》曰:‘乃眷西顧。’” |
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