爰

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

lead

HSK 10

Abstract →Qualities

yuán

エン

ここ.に

원

Pictograph of two hands pulling a rope.

Components

爫 claw (top)+ ◎ characterless component+ 又 again =

爰 lead

爫 Iconic component

zhǎo claw (top)

radical 87

爫 is a component form of 爪. Depicts a hand.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a rope being pulled.

又 Iconic component

yòu again

and, also, again, in addition

Depicts a hand.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

爰

Regular

Modern

Chinese

爰 [Yuán]

surname Yuan

爰 [yuán]

therefore; consequently; thus; hence; thereupon; it follows that; where?; to change (into); ancient unit of weight and money

Japanese

此処 (rare) 、此所 (rare) 、是 (rare) 、茲 (rare) 、爰 (rare) ここ同音

pronoun

usually kana here; this place
usually kana this point; here; now
usually kana these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ... (followed by a duration noun)
usually kana the next ... (e.g. few days); these next ... (followed by a duration noun)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

ここに手のないナベがある。

Here is a pan without handles.

この町の人口はここ１０年間動きがない。

The population of this town has been static for the last ten years.

JAPANESE WORDS (4)