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Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
Removed original form
Changed fields: hint
Pictograph of a person bent over. The meaning later shifted to "small round object" and "pellet, pill".
Character Evolution
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)