quǎn

a drain between fields

Components
田 meaning component

  Meaning component

tián

  

field

field

犬 sound component

  Sound component

quǎn

  

dog

Evolution

畎 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

quǎn

a drain between fields, irrigation; to flow; field drains

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʷˤ[i]nʔ

kwenX

juǎn

small watering channels in fields


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6342nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+754E

Shuowen

“,水小流也。《周禮》:‘匠人為溝洫,耜廣五寸,二耜為耦,一耦之伐,廣尺深尺謂之。’倍謂之遂,倍遂曰溝,倍溝曰洫,倍洫曰巜。甽,古文从田,从川;畎,篆文从田,犬聲。六畎為一畂。”


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