suān

a fabulous beast

Components

Meaning component
quǎn dog

animal

Sound component
qūn to dawdle

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsloːn
Unicodesuɑn

說文解字

狻麑,如虦貓,食虎豹者。从犬夋聲。見《爾雅》。

Sources

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