quán
fine growth of hair curly hair
Curled 卷 hair 髟; 卷 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷren | gjwen | quán | handsome (hair?) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5094th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+9B08 |
Shuowen | “鬈,髮好也。从髟,卷聲。《詩》曰:‘其人美且鬈。’” |
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