huān
noun #17,237

Measure Word

zhī

Meanings

  1. 1 badger

Examples

夜行性动物
Huān shì yī zhǒng yèxíngxìng dòngwù.
Badgers are nocturnal animals.
Lièrén zài shānshàng fāxiàn le huān de dòngxué.
The hunter found a badger's burrow in the mountains.

Tips

memory
has the (animal) radical plus (a phonetic component). Think: the animal () that goes 'huān!'

Components

radical
quǎn
dog; beast (radical form of 犬)
is the beast radical on the left — a stylised side-view of a four-legged animal. It marks as a wild mammal: badgers join wolf, fox, cat, lion, ape. Every furry creature in modern Chinese carries this radical.
phonetic
guàn
heron; reed-bird (here phonetic)
supplies the sound — guàn drifting to huān, a real shift through the g/h alternation also seen in /. The picture of a bird () with two staring eyes () above contributes no semantic load. Same phonetic family: observe, happy, jar, stork.

Stroke Order

huān