軟
ruǎn HSK5

flexible, soft, weak

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shorthand

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Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 耎 represents the sound.

Components

車
車 Meaning component
耎
耎 SoundMeaningRemnant component

欠 is shorthand for the 耎 component in the variant character 輭.

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangnjonʔ
Unicodenjiuɛ̌n

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica