𥁕
wēn

warm

Depicts a person (人) taking a bath in a tub (皿) of warm water, now written as 溫.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts drops of water.

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person
皿
皿 Iconic component
mǐn, mǐng dish

Used here to depict a bathtub.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 3 verified)

温溫氳

Iconic (1)

溫

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartʔwonʔˤunkind (adj.)
Zhengzhangquːn

說文解字

《說文》：“，仁也。从皿，以食囚也。官溥說。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.419
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)