juān
the millipede sometimes confounded with the grow-worm
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Han dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
juān
the millipede sometimes confounded with the grow-worm; bright, clear; to deduct; to show; bright and clean; glow-worm; galleyworm; millipede
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5339th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Unicode | U+8832 |
Shuowen | “蠲,馬蠲也。从虫、目,益聲,了象形。《明堂.月令》曰:‘腐艸為蠲。’” |
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