wǎn
amiable
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 宛 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]o[n]ʔ | 'jwonX | wǎn | beautiful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6819% of movies
3022nd most common character in movies
2798th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5A49 |
Shuowen | “婉，順也。从女，宛聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘太子痤婉’。” |
Sources
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