juān

the millipede sometimes confounded with the grow-worm

Components
益 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

benefit

蜀 sound component

  Sound component

shǔ

  

short name for Sichuan

Evolution

蠲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蠲 Seal script Han dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD)

Seal script

Han dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD)
蠲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

juān

the millipede sometimes confounded with the grow-worm; bright, clear; to deduct; to show; bright and clean; glow-worm; galleyworm; millipede

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5339th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+8832

Shuowen

“蠲,馬蠲也。从虫、目,益聲,了象形。《明堂.月令》曰:‘腐艸為蠲。’”


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