敖闰
áo​rùn

Ao Run

敖 áo, aó, ào ramble, stroll, roam

Originally a pictograph of a person (人) taking a stroll amid plants (屮). The 攵 component was added later.

Components

屮
屮 Iconic component
chè, cǎo sprout

Depicts plants.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 屮 than it was in ancient scripts.
人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.
攵
攵 Meaning component
pū tap

攵 is a component form of 攴.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 12 verified)

傲熬鳌嗷遨鏊骜螯獒聱鰲廒

Meaning (0 of 4 verified)

赘遨骜贅

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartngaw[ŋ]ˤaw tall
ngawŋˤaw saunter about

說文解字

《說文》：“敖，出游也。从出，从放。”

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)

闰 rùn extra month Simplified

Depicts a king (王) in a doorway (门), as part of a ceremony marking the beginning of the extra month sometimes inserted into the lunar calendar. Simplified form of 閏.

Components

王
王 Iconic component
wáng king
门
门 Iconic component
mén, men door

Component uses

Sound (1)

润

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

閏 extra month Traditional

Depicts a king (王) in a doorway (門), as part of a ceremony marking the beginning of the extra month sometimes inserted into the lunar calendar.

Components

王
王 Iconic component
wáng king
門
門 Iconic component
mén, men door

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

潤

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnywinHnu[n]-s intercalary month

說文解字

《說文》：“閏，餘分之月，五歲再閏。告朔之禮，天子居宗廟，閏月居門中。从王在門中。《周禮》曰：‘閏月王居門中，終月也。’”

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)