guān
to close
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 𢇇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 關
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
relation | ||
pertaining to | ||
to relate to | ||
to pay attention to | ||
to close |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤro[n] | kwaen | guān | barrier |
*[k]ˤro[n] | kwaen | guān | 關關 kwaen.kwaen [bird’s cry] |
*kˤro[n] | kwaen | guān | 間關 sound of a chariot's linchpin (Ode 218.1) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 98.5424% of movies
151st most common character in movies
127th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95DC |
Shuowen | “關，以木橫持門戶也。从門，聲。” |
Sources
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