Chinese Character Wiki

琨

kūn

beautiful jade

Components
王 meaning component

王  Meaning component

wáng, wàng

  

king

jade

昆 sound component

昆  Sound component

kūn

  

elder brother

Evolution

琨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
琨 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
琨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

琨  

kūn

beautiful jade, precious stones; (jade)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4557th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7428

Shuowen

“琨，石之美者。从玉，昆聲。《虞書》曰：‘楊州貢瑤琨。’瑻，琨或从貫。”


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