hán

Korea

Original meaning: 

fence surrounding a well

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "fence surrounding a well". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
倝 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

gàn

  

sunrise

韋 meaning component

  Meaning component

wéi

  

(surround a city), tanned leather

Evolution

韓 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
韓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hán

fence; surname; Korea

() 

Hán

Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897; Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国; surname Han

Most common words with 韓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

韩国

South Korea (Republic of Korea)

surname Han

韩元

Won (Korean currency)

韩寒

Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver

南韩

South Korea

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤar

han

hán

(state in the Korean peninsula; Three Kingdoms period)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.8465% of movies

1655th most common character in movies

1221st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+97D3

Shuowen

“,井垣也。从韋,取其帀也,倝聲。”


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