yuànhuán

a dyke

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
wán complete

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɦŋoːn
ɦŋoːns

說文解字

以桼和灰而䰍也。从土完聲。一曰補垸。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica