Read Edit View history 员 yuán HSK3 member Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Oct 16, 2020, 04:16 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 16, 2020, 04:16 PM verify, add source Changed fields: isVerified, components, customSources Simplified form of 員. Depicts the round opening (口) of a cooking pot (鼎). Based on the original meaning "round", now written as 圓. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. Components ◎ ◎ Iconic component Depicts a circle. 贝 贝 IconicRemnant component Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 贝 than it was in ancient scripts. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode