Unicode: U+8431

Pinyin: xuān

Definition

* 〔~草〕多年生草本植物,叶条状披针形,花黄色或红黄色,供观赏。亦称"金针菜";简称"萱",如"~堂"(借指母亲或母亲居住的地方)。"~椿"(指父母)

day-lily, hemerocallisflava

Structure

萱 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_E05827_E05927_8431
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
81_E370

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC