Chinese Character Wiki
完

wán

complete

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 元 represents the sound. The 宀 component is used because putting on a roof completes the process of constructing a building.

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

元 sound component

元  Sound component

yuán

  

first

Evolution

完 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
完 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

完  

wán

complete, finish, settle; whole; to finish; to be over; complete; entire

Most common words with 完
Freq.
Word
Meaning

完全

complete

完

to finish

完成

to complete

完美

perfect

完善

excellent

Component uses

Sound component in 10 characters (1 verified)

院 皖 莞 浣 烷 脘 鯇 鲩 筦 垸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤo[n]

hwan

wán

finish (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 96.6362% of movies

221st most common character in movies

301st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5B8C

Shuowen

“完，全也。从宀，元聲。古文以為寬字。”


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