lún

arrange

Depicts an assembly () of writings ().

Components

Meaning component
(upside-down mouth), to assemble
Meaning component
book

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 8 verified)

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrun

說文解字

《說文》:“侖,思也。从亼,从冊。,籀文侖。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

lún, lùn logical reasons Simplified

Simplified form of . Depicts an assembly () of writings ().

Components

(upside-down mouth), to assemble
Simplified component
bǐ, pìn spoon, (person)

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

Component uses

Sound (3 of 7 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode