gǔn

cord

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
kūn elder brother

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkuːnʔ

說文解字

織帶也。从系昆聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

gǔn, hùn, hún cord Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
kūn elder brother

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode