Chinese Character Wiki

芄

wán

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

plant

丸 sound component

丸  Sound component

wán

  

small round object

Evolution

芄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

芄  

wán

Metaplexis stauntoni

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤa[r]

hwan

wán

Metaplexis japonica


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5136th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+8284

Shuowen

“芄，芄蘭，莞也。从艸，丸聲。《詩》曰：‘芄蘭之枝’。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License