lùnlún

debate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

侖 sound component

  Sound component

lún

  

arrange

Evolution

論 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
論 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
論 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
論 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lùn

debate; discuss; discourse; opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)

() 

Lún

abbr. for 論語|论语[Lún​yǔ], The Analects (of Confucius)

Most common words with 論
Freq.
Word
Meaning

讨论

to discuss

无论

no matter what or how

理论

theory

评论

to comment on

谈论

to discuss

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]u[n]

lwin

lún

(in name of Lúnyǔ 論語)

*[r]ˤu[n]

lwon

lún

discuss, examine

*[r]ˤu[n]-s

lwonH

lùn

discussion, discourse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 78.3117% of movies

438th most common character in movies

205th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+8AD6

Shuowen

“論,議也。从言,侖聲。”


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