huān
happy
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰˤar | xwan | huān | rejoice; joyous |
*qʷʰˤar | xwan | huān | 驩潛 Khwārazm (region in Central Asia, W. Hàn) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 96.4921% of movies
148th most common character in movies
685th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 27 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A69 |
Shuowen | “驩，馬名。从馬，雚聲。” |
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