guàn
pour
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 灌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to pour | ||
to imbue with | ||
to irrigate | ||
to pour into | ||
to fuddle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.qʷ]ˤar-s | kwanH | guàn | pour, drip |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.4277% of movies
2009th most common character in movies
2077th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+704C |
Shuowen | “灌，水。出廬江雩婁，北入淮。从水，雚聲。” |
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