juàn

take interest in

Components

Sound component
juǎn to roll rice into a ball
Meaning component
eye

eye

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjwenH[k]ro[n]-slook on with affection
Zhengzhangkrons
Unicodegyuɛ̀n

說文解字

顧也。从目𢍏聲。《詩》曰:“乃眷西顧。”

Sources

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