勻
yún

equal

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Phonosemantic compound. 云 represents the sound and 吕 represents the meaning.

Components

云
云 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 云 than it was in ancient scripts.
吕
吕 Meaning component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 吕 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartywin[N-q]ʷi[n]even, uniform
ywin[ɢ]ʷi[ŋ]little, few (Shuōwén)
Zhengzhangɢʷin

說文解字

《說文》：“勻，少也。从勹、二。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.714-715
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)