quán

aromatic herb

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

全 sound component

  Sound component

quán

  

entire

Evolution

荃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

quán

aromatic herb; fine cloth; (fragrant plant)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3756th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8343

Shuowen

“荃,芥脃也。从艸,全聲。”


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