阍
hūn

gatekeeper

Components

门
门 Meaning component
mén, men door

gate

昏
昏 Sound component
hūn, hún twilight

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

閽 gatekeeper Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhanghmɯːn
Unicodexuən

說文解字

常以昏閉門隸也。从門从昏，昏亦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)