䜌
luán

tie together

Phonosemantic compound. Two threads (糸 + 糸) represent the meaning and 言 represents the sound.

Components

絲
絲 Meaning component
sī silk, threads
言
言 Sound component
yán speech
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 12 verified)

变變蠻鑾巒戀孌臠彎孿攣欒

Simplified (1)

变

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

鸞

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlwanmə.rˤo[n] harness bells

說文解字

《說文》：“，亂也。一曰治也，一曰不絕也。从言絲，，古文。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)