huān

cheer

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

雚 sound component

  Sound component

guànhuán

  

heron

Evolution

讙 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
讙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讙 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
讙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬤰 () 

huān

cheer; noise, noisy

() 

huān

hubbub; clamor; variant of |[huān]

Most common words with 讙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喜欢

to like

欢迎

to welcome

欢乐

gaiety

joyous

狂欢

party

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰar

xjwon

huān

clamor, shout


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 96.4921% of movies

148th most common character in movies

685th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B99

Shuowen

“讙,譁也。从言,雚聲。”


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