quán​bàng

martial arts

quán fist

Components

Sound component
juǎn to roll rice into a ball
Meaning component
shǒu, shou hand

hand

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjwenN-kro[n]fist (< rolled-up hand)
Zhengzhangɡron
Unicodeghyuɛn

說文解字

手也。从手聲。

Sources

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

bàng stick

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
tree
Sound component
fèng offer

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbroːŋʔ

Sources

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