cuàn (Pinyin: Cuà n) is a second-level common Chinese character. This word was first seen in the Warring States Period.
The upper part of the ancient glyph simulates holding the retort with both hands, with the kitchen mouth in the middle and the firewood pushed into the kitchen mouth with both hands at the lower part. The original meaning refers to cooking with fire. Anything related to this meaning can be called "Cuan". For example, in ancient times, the kitchen was called "Cuan room" and the cauldron for cooking was called "Cuan wok". "Cuan" is also used as a surname.
knowing words. The word "Cuo" began to appear in the Warring States Period, and the ancient Chinese character "Cuo" can be said to be a picture of cooking with a fire. Take the seal script of Shuowen Jiezi (Figure 2) as an example: component B stands for Cuo, which generally refers to a kind of cooker; Component a represents the hands that put the retort on the stove. The middle component c is the pictograph of the stove mouth. The lower part is the epitome of firewood burning: both hands (component E) push firewood (component D) into the stove, and a "fire" burns below (component F).
Introduction to the word
The word "Cuan" listed above is mainly popular in Chu, and there are some other variants. Its glyph is probably that the middle part is a cooker, and the lower part is from the fire, which means cooking with fire. The upper part should be from the "allow" sound or the "allow" sound saving. These variants gradually died out after the Western Han Dynasty.
due to the complexity of the "si" shape, there have been many simplified forms in later generations. But this font doesn't seem to be popular, and it won't be used in future generations. The word "Cuan" in the tablet of Cuan Baozi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the tablet of Cuan Longyan in the Southern Song Dynasty left out the "big" hands below, and the fire became four points, which shows that calligraphers at that time also found this word difficult to write.