yūn, yùn
halo in sky, dizzy
Simplified form of 暈. Depicts thin clouds surrounding the sun (日). The thin clouds were later replaced by the phonetic component 军. The meaning later shifted to "dizzy" and "faint".
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 晕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dizzy | ||
dizzy | ||
to faint | ||
vertigo | ||
confused and disoriented |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 18.6128% of movies
1615th most common character in movies
2215th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6655 |
Sources
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