Chinese Character Wiki

鬈

quán

fine growth of hair curly hair

Curled 卷 hair 髟; 卷 also provides the pronunciation

Components
髟 meaning component

髟  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

卷 sound,meaning component

卷  Sound Meaning component

juǎn, juàn

  

curl, roll

Evolution

鬈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鬈  

quán

fine growth of hair curly hair; to curl; curled

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ʷren

gjwen

quán

handsome (hair?)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5094th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+9B08

Shuowen

“鬈，髮好也。从髟，卷聲。《詩》曰：‘其人美且鬈。’”


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