quān

repent

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

heart

夋 sound component

  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

悛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

quān

repent, reform; to reform

Most common words with 悛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

怙恶不悛

to keep doing evil without a sense of repentance (idiom)

to reform

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6250th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+609B

Shuowen

“悛,止也。从心,夋聲。”


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