Chinese Character Wiki

浣

huàn

to wash

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 完 represents the sound. Simplified form of 澣.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

完 sound component

完  Sound component

wán

  

complete

Evolution

浣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
浣 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
浣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

浣  

huàn

to wash, to rinse; to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty); Taiwan pr. [huǎn]; also pr. [wǎn]

浣 (澣) 

huàn

variant of 浣[huàn]

Most common words with 浣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浣熊

raccoon (Procyon lotor)

浣

to wash

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤo[n]ʔ

hwanX

huàn

to wash clothes


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9451% of movies

3156th most common character in movies

4343rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D63

Shuowen

“，濯衣垢也。从水，聲。浣，或从完。”


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