Chinese Character Wiki

旋

xuán, xuàn

revolve

An army 方 marching under a flag 疋

Components
方 meaning component

方  Meaning component

fāng

  

square

疋 meaning component

疋  Meaning component

pǐ, shū, yǎ

  

foot

Evolution

旋 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
旋 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
旋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旋  

xuán

revolve, move in orbit; return; to revolve; a loop; a circle

旋  

xuàn

to whirl; immediately; variant of 鏇|镟[xuàn]

Most common words with 旋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

旋转

to rotate

旋律

melody

旋

a loop

螺旋

spiral

盘旋

to spiral

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

璇 漩

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

璇 漩 镟

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ɢʷen

zjwen

xuán

turn around; return

*s-ɢʷen-s

zjwenH

xuàn

whorl of hair on the head


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 12.9425% of movies

1735th most common character in movies

1383rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+65CB

Shuowen

“旋，周旋，旌旗之指麾也。从，从疋。”


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