luán

tie together

Phonosemantic compound. Two threads ( + ) represent the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
絲 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk, threads

言 sound component

  Sound component

yán

  

speech

Evolution

䜌 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
䜌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
䜌 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
䜌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

luán

(ancient form) chaos; distraction; confusion, confused, continuous; uninterrupted; to tie together, to manage

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 12 characters (4 verified)

孿

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə.rˤo[n]

lwan

luán

harness bells


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+470C

Shuowen

“,亂也。一曰治也,一曰不絕也。从言絲,,古文。”


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