龹 - Dong Chinese dictionary

juǎn

to roll rice into a ball

Original meaning:

to wash one's hands

龹 is a component form of 𢍏. Depicts hands (廾) being washed in water. Based on the original meaning "to wash one's hands", now written as 盥. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts drops of water.

廾 Iconic component

gǒng

two hands

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 廾 than it was in ancient scripts.

Definitions

龹

juǎn

to roll

Component uses

Sound component in 11 characters (1 verified)

卷券拳眷豢誊鲞劵弮桊飬

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

塍

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[k](r)o[n]ʔ	kjwenX	juǎn	roll (v.)

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+9FB9

Sources

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