guān

assistant in wine shop

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

Sound component
guān official

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwænHkʷˤra[n]-sservant, groom
Zhengzhangkoːn
kroːns

說文解字

小臣也。从人从官。《詩》曰:“命彼倌人。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica