xuān

fly

Evolution

翾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

xuān

fly; to flit; flirtatious; short flight

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰen

xjwien

xuān

fly about


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+7FFE

Shuowen

“翾,小飛也。从羽,睘聲。”


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