juān

beautiful

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

肙 sound component

  Sound component

yuànyuān

  

to be satiated

Evolution

娟 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
娟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

juān

beautiful, graceful; beautiful; graceful

Most common words with 娟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

beautiful

婵娟

moon

娟秀

beautiful

郑幸娟

Zheng Xingjuan (1989-), Chinese athlete, lady high jumper

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.1602% of movies

3353rd most common character in movies

2564th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A1F

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“娟,嬋娟也。从女,肙聲。”


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