亘
gèn

turn around, turn back

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Depicts the sun (日) between the earth and the sky. Variant form of 亙.

Components

回
回 Iconic component
huí return
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 回 than it was in ancient scripts.
二
二 Distinguishing component
èr two

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
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwan[ɢ]ʷˤar turn around, turn back
sjwens-[q]ʷar turn around
sjwenswar (< *s-[q]ʷar)阿會亘 ēhuìxuān: Skt. ābhāsvara ‘shining’ (E. Hàn)

說文解字

《說文》：“亘，求亘也。从二，从囘。囘，古文回，象囘回形。上下，所求物也。”

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)