狁
yǔn

a tribe of Scythian nomads

Components

犭
犭 Meaning component
quǎn dog

animal

允
允 Sound component
yǔn allow, permit

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartywinX[l]u[r]ʔ獫狁 xjemX.ywinX (name of a northern tribe)
Zhengzhanglunʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica