璉
liǎn

vessel used to hold grain offerings

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrenʔ

Sources

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

琏 liǎn, lián vessel used to hold grain offerings Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 连 represents the sound. Simplified form of 璉.

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king
连
连 Sound component
lián connect, join, link

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode