Derived from 夗. Pictograph of a dying animal lying down. The meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet" and "pill".
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | hwan | [ɢ]ʷˤar | pellet; ball |
| hwan | ɦʷˤar (< *[ɢ]ʷˤar) | 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn) |
說文解字
《說文》：“丸，圜，傾側而轉者。从反仄。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 季旭昇《說文新證》p.726劉釗《古文字構形學》p.128
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
Traditional
Original meaning: beard
Pictograph of a person with a bearded face. Based on the original meaning "beard", now written as 鬚. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | sju | C-[s.n]o | beard |
| sju | [s]o | 斯須 a short time |
說文解字
《說文》：“須，面毛也。从頁，从彡。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)