彎
wān HSK4

bend

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Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components

䜌
䜌 Sound component
弓
弓 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqroːn
Unicodequan

說文解字

《說文》：“彎，持弓關矢也。从弓，聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)