夗
yuàn

to turn over when asleep

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approved by Peter Olson · Sep 2, 2021, 12:51 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Sep 2, 2021, 12:51 AM

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Components

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

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jwonX[ʔ]o[r]ʔ turn over in bed

說文解字

《說文》：“夗，轉卧也。从夕，从卪。卧有卪也。”

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)