guàn

jar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
缶 meaning component

  Meaning component

fǒu

  

pottery

雚 sound component

  Sound component

guànhuán

  

heron

Evolution

罐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
罐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guàn

jar, jug, pitcher, pot; can; jar; pot

() 

guàn

variant of [guàn]

Most common words with 罐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

can

罐头

tin

罐子

jar

易拉罐

pull-top can

罐车

tanker truck

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.0066% of movies

1660th most common character in movies

2410th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+7F50

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“罐,器也。从缶,雚聲。”


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