yuān
mosquito larva
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷenʔ | 'jwienX | yuān | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending |
*qʷˤen | 'wen | yuān | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending |
*[m-k-qʷ]enʔ | gjwienX | yuān | crawl (as an insect); soft, bending |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
8414th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+870E |
Shuowen | “蜎，蜎也。从虫，肙聲。” |
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