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泉

quán

spring

Depicts water (水) coming out of a crack in a rock.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a crack in a rock. Unrelated to 白 (white).

水 iconic component

水  Iconic component

shuǐ

  

water

Evolution

泉 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
泉 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
泉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泉  

quán

spring, fountain; wealth, money; spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)

Most common words with 泉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

泉

coin (archaic)

温泉

spa

喷泉

fountain

矿泉水

mineral spring water

小泉

Koizumi (name)

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

原 線 腺

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

原

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-N-ɢʷar (MC I!)

dzjwen

quán

spring, source


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 7.6085% of movies

1992nd most common character in movies

1641st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6CC9

Shuowen

“泉，水原也。象水流出成川形。”


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