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论

lùn, lún

debate

Simplified form of 論. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 侖 represents the sound.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

仑 sound component

仑  Sound component

lún

  

logical reasons

Evolution

论 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
论 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
论 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

论 (論) 

lùn

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

论 (論) 

Lún

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

Most common words with 论
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

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 78.3117% of movies

438th most common character in movies

205th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

論

Unicode

U+8BBA


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