miǎn

make effort

Evolution

俛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俛 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
俛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
俛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

make effort, endeavor; to lower the head

 

miǎn

to exhort

() 

variant of [fǔ]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mr[a][n]ʔ

mjenX

miǎn

bend the head


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FDB

Shuowen

“頫,低頭也。从頁,逃省。太史卜書頫仰字如此。楊雄曰:‘人面頫。’俛,頫或从人、免。”


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