gǔn
Gun, mythical father of Yu the Great
Original meaning:
fishing line
Depicts a hand (又) holding a fishing line (玄) while catching a fish (鱼), now written as 綸. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5120th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9CA7 |
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