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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Depicts thin clouds surrounding the sun (日). The thin clouds were later replaced by the phonetic component 軍. The meaning later shifted to "dizzy" and "faint".
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | |
|---|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ɢuns | |
| Unicode | ngiuən |
說文解字
《說文新附》：“暈，日月气也。从日，軍聲。”
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)