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juàn

to roll rice into ball

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Original meaning: to wash one's hands

Depicts hands (廾) being washed in water. Based on the original meaning "to wash one's hands", now written as 盥. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

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◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts drops of water. Not related to 釆.

廾
廾 Iconic component
gǒng two hands

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》：“，摶飯也。从廾，釆聲。釆，古文辦字。”

Sources

Character origin
古今文字集成
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)