guàn

heron

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rejected by Hsmq · Mar 22, 2026, 03:30 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Mar 22, 2026, 03:56 PM

New strokes (Devided top horizontal line because it isn't from 艹)

Review: That's certainly true but in a lot of encoded fonts, the top part of this graph is written as 艹. I'd say we keep it the way it is because its the most acceptable way to write this component.

Changed fields: strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

SoundMeaning component
huán owl
Sound component
xuān, sòng noise

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwanHC.qʷˤar-s heron

說文解字

《說文》:“雚,小爵也。从萑,吅聲。《詩》曰:‘雚鳴于垤。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica