liǎn

wild vine

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
liǎn, liàn, lián draw back

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

wild vine Traditional

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
draw back

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartljem[r][a]m(a kind of creeping plant)
Zhengzhangɡ·ram
ɡ·ramʔ
qʰlam

Sources

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