huǎn
slow
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 爰 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤa[n]ʔ | hwanX | huǎn | slack; slow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.8075% of movies
1867th most common character in movies
1111th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7DE9 |
Shuowen | “,繛也。从素,爰聲。緩,或省。” |
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