guān

huge fish

Components

Meaning component
fish

fish

Sound component
reach to

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwɛn[k]ʷˤrə[n]widower; a kind of fish
Zhengzhangkruːn
kruːns

說文解字

魚也。从魚眔聲。李陽冰曰:“當从𥊽省。”

Sources

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

guān, guàn, kūn huge fish Simplified

Components

Meaning component
fish

fish

Sound component
reach to

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode