wán

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
wán small round object

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthwan[ɢ]ʷˤa[r]Metaplexis japonica
Zhengzhangɡʷaːn

說文解字

芄蘭,莞也。从艸丸聲。《詩》曰:“芄蘭之枝。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica