huān

cheer

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
guàn, huán heron

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxjwonqʷʰar clamor, shout

說文解字

《說文》:“讙,譁也。从言,雚聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

𬤰 huān, huàn cheer Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
guàn, huán heron

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode