Chinese Character Wiki

诠

quán

explain

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 全 represents the sound. Simplified form of 詮.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

全 sound component

全  Sound component

quán

  

entire

Evolution

诠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

诠 (詮) 

quán

explain, expound, comment on; to explain; to comment; to annotate

Most common words with 诠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诠释

to interpret

诠

to explain

诠注

exegesis

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5858% of movies

3038th most common character in movies

3683rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

詮

Unicode

U+8BE0


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