奐
huànHuàn

be numerous

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Original meaning: take from someone's house

Depicts two hands (廾) taking something from a person's (人) house (穴). Based on the original meaning "take from someone's house". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

人
人 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.
穴
穴 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 穴 than it was in ancient scripts.
廾
廾 Iconic component

Modern form looks like unrelated 大.

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰʷaːns

說文解字

《說文》：“奐，取奐也，一曰大也。从廾，敻省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)