wěn

confused

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糸 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

文 sound component

  Sound component

wén

  

writing

Evolution

紊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
紊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wěn

confused, disorder; involved; tangled; disorderly; confused; chaotic; Taiwan pr. [wèn]

Most common words with 紊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

紊乱

disorder

有条不紊

regular and thorough (idiom); methodically arranged

involved

紊流

turbulent flow

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9222% of movies

3096th most common character in movies

3113th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7D0A

Shuowen

“紊,亂也。从糸,文聲。《商書》曰:‘有條而不紊。’”


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