qióng
round
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤ<r>en | hwaen | huán | turn around, return |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
9213th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7758 |
Shuowen | “瞏,目驚視也。从目,袁聲。《詩》曰:‘獨行瞏瞏。’” |
Sources
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