huàn

to put on

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

睘 sound component

  Sound component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

擐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huàn

to put on; pass through; to get into (armor)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤren-s

hwaenH

huàn

put on clothing


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6899th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+64D0

Shuowen

“擐,貫也。从手,睘聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘擐甲執兵。’”


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