chuán

to hurry

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk

walk

Sound component
duān, zhuān tip, start, extremity

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdjon

說文解字

往來𢿙也。从辵耑聲。《易》曰:“㠯事遄往。”

Sources

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