lùn, lún
debate
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 侖 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 論
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to discuss | ||
no matter what or how | ||
theory | ||
to comment on | ||
to discuss |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]u[n] | lwin | lún | (in name of Lúnyǔ 論語) |
*[r]ˤu[n] | lwon | lún | discuss, examine |
*[r]ˤu[n]-s | lwonH | lùn | discussion, discourse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 78.3117% of movies
438th most common character in movies
205th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AD6 |
Shuowen | “論，議也。从言，侖聲。” |
Sources
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