niǎn
a hand-cart
Depicts two people (夫) pulling a chariot (車) together.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r][a][n]ʔ | ljenX | niǎn | cart drawn by men |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5044th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F26 |
Shuowen | “輦，輓車也。从車，从在車前引之。” |
Sources
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