犬戎
Quǎn​róng

Quanrong

犬 quǎn dog

Pictograph of a dog.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 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

Meaning (8 of 15 verified)

状默哭臭莽倏吠類猷獒肰猋獎尨狀

Iconic (10)

突献伏狱戾獄獸犮猒獻

Unknown (2)

器幸

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

厣畎

Deleted (1)

兽

Simplified (1)

厌

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkhwenX[k]ʷʰˤ[e][n]ʔ dog

說文解字

《說文》：“犬，狗之有縣蹏者也。象形。孔子曰：‘視犬之字如畫狗也。’”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.750
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

戎 róng, rēng arms

Depicts a weapon (戈) and a shield (盾). Both used here to convey the meaning "arms".

Components

戈
戈 Iconic component
gē spear
盾
盾 Iconic component
dùn shield

Depicts a shield.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 盾 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 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 Xin 9-23 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

绒絨狨

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnyuwngnuŋ foreigners in the west
nyuwngnuŋ weapon

說文解字

《說文》：“戎，兵也。从戈，从甲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫林志強《《文源》評注》p.487
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)