kuān
broad
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 萈 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷʰˤa[n] | khwan | kuān | vast, wide |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.9172% of movies
1571st most common character in movies
1155th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5BEC |
Shuowen | “寬，屋寬大也。从宀，萈聲。” |
Sources
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