wèn

a river in Shandong province

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

文 sound component

  Sound component

wén

  

writing

Evolution

汶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
汶 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
汶 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
汶 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
汶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wèn

a river in Shandong province

 

Wèn

Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川); classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国

Most common words with 汶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川)

东帝汶

East Timor (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste)

汶川

Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A​bà​Zàng​zú​Qiāng​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu], northwest Sichuan

汶川县

Wenchuan county (Tibetan: wun khron rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A​bà​Zàng​zú​Qiāng​zú​zì​zhì​zhōu], northwest Sichuan

汶上

Wenshang County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Jǐ​níng], Shandong

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤə[n]

mwon

mén

dirty


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3719th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C76

Shuowen

“汶,水。出琅邪朱虛東泰山,東入濰。从水,文聲。桑欽說,汶水出泰山萊蕪,西南入泲。”


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