睘
qióng

round

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Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 袁 represents the sound.

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
袁
袁 Sound component
yuán robe

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwaen[ɢ]ʷˤ<r>en turn around, return

說文解字

《說文》：“瞏，目驚視也。从目，袁聲。《詩》曰：‘獨行瞏瞏。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)