款 - Dong Chinese dictionary

kuǎn

item, funds

Original meaning:

desire to have something

Phonosemantic compound. 柰 represents the sound and 欠 represents the meaning. Based on the original meaning "desire to have something". The meaning later shifted to "funds" and "item".

Components

柰 Sound component

nài

crab-apple tree

款 and 柰 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

欠 Meaning component

qiàn

yawn, deficient

欠 hints at the original meaning of 款, "desire to have something", which is no longer the most common meaning of 款 in modern Mandarin.

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

款

kuǎn

item, article; clause; fund; section; paragraph; funds; CL:筆|笔[bǐ],個|个[gè]; classifier for versions or models (of a product)

Most common words with 款

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	款	section
	贷款	a loan
	条款	clause (of contract or law)
	存款	bank savings
	捐款	to donate money

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

窾

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 27.6950% of movies

1176th most common character in movies

807th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+6B3E
Shuowen	“，意有所欲也。从欠，祟欠省。歀，或从柰。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

李学勤《字源》p.768

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