wán

careless

Phonosemantic compount. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
to practice
Sound component
yuán first

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngwanH[ŋ]ˤo[n]-s familiar with

說文解字

《說文》:“翫,習猒也。从習,元聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica