hái, huán
still
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 睘 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤ<r>en | hwaen | huán | turn around; return |
*s-ɢʷen | zjwen | xuán | turn around, return; agile |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.9359% of movies
41st most common character in movies
80th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9084 |
Shuowen | “還,復也。从辵,睘聲。” |
Sources
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