罕
hǎn HSK7

rare

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Original meaning: bird trap

Phonosemantic compound. 网 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bird trap". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

网
网 Meaning component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 网 than it was in ancient scripts.
干
干 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
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

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartxanXqʰˤa[r]ʔ rare
xanXqʰˤa[r]ʔ net

說文解字

《說文》：“，网也。从网，干聲。”

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)