Chinese Character Wiki

涵

hán

soak

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

函 sound component

函  Sound component

hán

  

envelop, case

Evolution

涵 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
涵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

涵  

hán

soak, wet; tolerate, be lenient; to contain; to include; culvert

Most common words with 涵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

内涵

implication

涵盖

to cover

涵

to contain

涵义

content

包涵

to excuse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤ[o]m

hom

hán

soak, overflow


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2105% of movies

3035th most common character in movies

2330th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DB5

Shuowen

“，水澤多也，从水圅聲。《詩》曰：‘僭始既。’”


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