liǎn

wild vine

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

斂 sound component

  Sound component

liǎnliàn

  

draw back

Evolution

蘞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蘞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liǎn

wild vine, vitis pentaphylla; trailing plant; liana; creeper; wild vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum or Vitis pentaphylla)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r][a]m

ljem

lián

(a kind of creeping plant)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+861E

Shuowen

“薟,白薟也。从艸,僉聲。蘞,薟或从斂。”


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