juàn
to roll rice into ball
Original meaning:
to wash one's hands
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
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k](r)o[n]ʔ | kjwenX | juǎn | roll (v.) |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+2234F |
Shuowen | “，摶飯也。从廾，釆聲。釆，古文辦字。” |
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