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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC 
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
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Original meaning: building
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 夗 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "building", now written as 館. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
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Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | 'jwonX | [ʔ]o[r]ʔ | curved; to bend |
說文解字
《說文》：“宛，屈艸自覆也。从宀，夗聲。惌，宛或从心。徐灝注箋：“夗者，屈曲之義，宛从宀，蓋謂宮室窈然深曲，引申為凡圓曲之偁，又為屈折之偁。屈草自覆未詳其恉。”
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)