chuàn

bracelet

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

川 sound component

  Sound component

chuān

  

stream

Evolution

釧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
釧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chuàn

bracelet, armlet; armlet; bracelet

() 

Chuàn

surname Chuan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5164th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+91E7

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“釧,臂環也。从金,川聲。”


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