Chinese Character Wiki

畎

quǎn

a drain between fields

Components
田 meaning component

田  Meaning component

tián

  

field

field

犬 sound component

犬  Sound component

quǎn

  

dog

Evolution

畎 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

畎  

quǎn

a drain between fields, irrigation; to flow; field drains

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʷˤ[i]nʔ

kwenX

juǎn

small watering channels in fields


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6342nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+754E

Shuowen

“，水小流也。《周禮》：‘匠人為溝洫，耜廣五寸，二耜為耦，一耦之伐，廣尺深尺謂之。’倍謂之遂，倍遂曰溝，倍溝曰洫，倍洫曰巜。甽，古文从田，从川；畎，篆文从田，犬聲。六畎為一畂。”


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