juān

beautiful

Components

Meaning component
nǚ, nü woman

woman

Sound component
yuàn, yuān to be satiated

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqʷen
Unicodeqiuɛn

說文解字

嬋娟也。从女肙聲。

Sources

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