guàn

throw ground

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwænHkˤro[n]-saccustomed to
Zhengzhangkroːns

說文解字

習也。从手貫聲。《春秋傳》曰:“摜瀆鬼神。”

Sources

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

guàn throw ground Simplified

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

Sound component
guàn a string of 1000 coins

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode