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雚

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

small

HSK 10

Nature →Animals →Birds

guàn

カン

こうのとり

Phonosemantic compound. 雈 represents the meaning and 吅 represents the sound.

Components

雈 owl+ 吅 noise =

雚 small

雈 Meaning component

owl

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吅 Phonetic component

noise

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Notes

Similar Characters

舊 old (trad)蒦 measure 丧 mourn (simp)喪 funeral (trad/jp)哭 cry 骂 blame (simp)

Historical Evolution

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

雚

Regular

Modern

Chinese

雚 [guàn]

(archaic) stork; heron

雚 [huán]

variant of 萑[huán]

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (1)

雚菌 [huánjūn]

a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)