fèn

name of a river

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
fèn manure

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpɯns
pʰɯns

說文解字

水浸也。从水糞聲。《爾雅》曰:“瀵,大出尾下。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

𬉂 fèn Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode