gǔn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) stone roller (farm tool)
  2. 2 (archaic) to roll or level with a stone roller

Examples

Gǔn zhǐ nóngmín yònglái yā shí tǔ de shítou gǔnzi.
This character means the stone roller a farmer used to press the soil firm.

Tips

history
has no standalone modern use; today the rolling sense is carried by (to roll) and (to crush). It is a phono-semantic char: the stone radical plus the phonetic , which also gives the sound in .
register
Archaic agricultural vocabulary; found in old farming texts and etymology notes, not modern speech.

Components

radical
shí
stone
is the stone radical. The roller this character names was a stone cylinder, so the stone element supplies the literal material and meaning.
phonetic
gǔn
ceremonial dragon robe (phonetic)
supplies the sound gǔn cleanly with no meaning contribution. It is the same phonetic in , the modern char for rolling.

Stroke Order

gǔn