眷村
juàn​cūn

military dependents' village

眷 juàn take interest in

Components

龹
龹 Sound component
juǎn to roll rice into a ball
目
目 Meaning component
mù 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
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

村 cūn village

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 寸 represents the sound.

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree
寸
寸 Sound component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰuːn
Unicodetsuən

Sources

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