hán

an ancient place in the state of Wu

Components

Sound component
gàn, gān interfere
Meaning component
hill, place

place

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkaːn
ɡaːn
Unicodeghiong

說文解字

國也,今屬臨淮。从邑干聲。一曰邗本屬吳。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica