guàn, huán
heron
Phonosemantic compound. 雈 represents the meaning and 吅 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʷˤar-s | kwanH | guàn | heron |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
7773rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+96DA |
Shuowen | “雚，小爵也。从萑，吅聲。《詩》曰：‘雚鳴于垤。’” |
Sources
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