垣 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

yuán

low wall

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 亘 represents the sound.

Components

土 Meaning component

tǔ

earth

亘 Sound component

gèn, xuān

turn around, turn back

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yuán

low wall; wall

Most common words with 垣

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	垣	wall
	残垣断壁	crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)
	城垣	city wall
	长垣	Changyuan county in Xinxiang 新鄉\|新乡[Xīnxiāng], Henan
	墙垣	wall

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ɢ]ʷar	hjwon	yuán	wall

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2948th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Sources