qún
skirt
Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 君 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]u[r] | gjun | qún | skirt |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 14.4161% of movies
1577th most common character in movies
2431st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+88D9 |
Shuowen | “帬,下裳也。帬或从衣。” |
Sources
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