huányuán

circle

A round  fence 

Components
囗 meaning component

  Meaning component

wéi

  

surround

睘 meaning component

  Meaning component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

圜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
圜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
圜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huán

circle, surround; encircle; circle

 

yuán

round

Most common words with 圜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

circle

转圜

to mediate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɢʷ<r>en

hjwen

yuán

round


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5244th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+571C

Shuowen

“圜,天體也。从囗,睘聲。”


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