hàn

writing brush

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

倝 sound component

  Sound component

gàn

  

sunrise

Evolution

翰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hàn

writing brush, pen, pencil; writing brush; writing; pen

 

Hàn

surname Han

Most common words with 翰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

约翰

John (name)

约翰逊

Johnson or Johnston (name)

pen

伯明翰

Birmingham

约翰内斯堡

Johannesburg, South Africa

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤar (MC implies *-s)

hanH

hàn

white (of a horse)

*[g]ˤar-s

hanH

hàn

pheasant; feather, wing

*[g]ˤar-s

hanH

hàn

high

*m-kˤar-s

hanH

hàn

prop up, support


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.0913% of movies

1184th most common character in movies

1881st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+7FF0

Shuowen

“翰,天雞,赤羽也。从羽,倝聲。”


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