guàn

wash

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Washing  one's hands  in a basin 

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Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːnʔ
koːns

說文解字

《說文》:“盥,澡手也。从、水,臨皿。《春秋傳》曰:‘奉匜沃盥。’”

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica