huān
happy
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰˤar | xwan | huān | rejoice; joyous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 96.4921% of movies
148th most common character in movies
685th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+61FD |
Shuowen | “懽，喜也。从心，雚聲。《爾雅》曰：‘懽懽愮愮，憂無告也。’” |
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