冉冉
rǎn​rǎn

gradually

冉 rǎn, nán, dān drooping

Depicts two strands of hair drooping.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

髯聃苒蚺

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangnjam
njamʔ
Unicodenjiɛ̌m
njiɛ̌m

說文解字

《說文》：“冄，毛冄冄也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.731
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)