lián
lotus
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 連 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.[r]ˤe[n] (cf. 蕑 jiān < kean < *kˤre[n] (dial. *k.rˤ- > kˤr-) ‘lotus fruit (Ode 145.2)’) | len | lián | lotus fruit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.5239% of movies
2045th most common character in movies
1837th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+84EE |
Shuowen | “蓮,芙蕖之實也。从艸,連聲。” |
Sources
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