xuán

compasses

Evolution

㘣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

xuán

compasses, (same as U+5713 ) round; circular

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[ɢ]ʷe[n]

zjwen

xuán

compasses


Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+3623

Shuowen

“,規也。从囗,肙聲。”


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