yuàn
desire
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 原 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]o[n]-s (< nasal + uvular?) | ngjwonH | yuàn | to wish |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 80.9707% of movies
409th most common character in movies
598th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9858 |
Shuowen | “願,大頭也。从頁,原聲。” |
Sources
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