缗
mín

a fishing-line

Components

纟
纟 Meaning component
mì silk

thread

昬
昬 Sound component
hūn dusk

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

緡 a fishing-line Traditional

Character Evolution

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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartminm-ru[n] (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)wrap around
minm-run (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)cord
Zhengzhangmrɯn
Unicodemyin

Sources

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