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涓

juān
noun #93,121

Meanings

  1. 1 a tiny trickle of water (literary)
  2. 2 to select; to choose (an auspicious day) (classical)

Examples

不积涓流，无以成江海。
Bù jī juān liú, wúyǐ chéng jiānghǎi.
Without trickling streams there would be no rivers or seas.

Tips

history
涓 rarely stands alone today; it lives on in the literary reduplication 涓涓 (trickling) and the idiom 涓滴归公 (turn over every cent to the public). It pairs the water radical 氵 with the phonetic 肙.
register
Literary; encountered in set phrases, classical lines and names rather than ordinary speech.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water
The three-drop water radical 氵 (the side form of 水) marks the meaning: a thin flow of water, a trickle.
phonetic
肙 yuān
small worm (phonetic element)
Supplies the sound; the same phonetic element appears in 捐 and 娟. It carries no meaning into this character.

Stroke Order

涓 juān