huán
owl
Pictograph of an owl.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢʷˤar | hwan | huán | a kind of owl |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+96C8 |
Shuowen | “萑,鴟屬。从隹,从,有毛角。所鳴‘其民有旤’。讀若和。” |
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