luǎn
egg
Two ovaries containing eggs
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rˤorʔ (dialect: *-r > *-j) | lwaX | luǎn | egg |
*k.rˤorʔ | lwanX | luǎn | egg |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.0686% of movies
2389th most common character in movies
2008th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5375 |
Shuowen | “卵，凡物無乳者卵生。象形。” |
Sources
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