ànhàn

prison

Components

Meaning component
zhì (dhole), beast

beast

Sound component
gàn, gān interfere

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnganHm-[ɢ]ˤa[r]-swild dog
Zhengzhangŋaːn
ŋaːns
ɦŋaːns
ŋ̊ʰraːn

說文解字

胡地野狗。从豸干聲。

Sources

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